Chronicle of Nestor. Birth of Kievan Rus'.
Anarchism| N° d'inventaire | 26922 |
| Format | 12.5 x 20 |
| Détails | 288 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Toulouse, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791027904471 |
At the beginning of the 12th century, in the Caves Monastery in Kiev, the monk Nestor began to write this Chronicle, which tells of the birth of a new world on the territory of the Eastern Slavs.
Written in the 12th century by the monk Nestor, this Chronicle , otherwise known as the Story of Times Past, is a tremendously ambitious undertaking. Its aim was to bring time into order and to bring the principality of Kiev, capital of what was then called Rus', into the continuity of universal Christian history. Beginning with the flood, Nestor evokes the birth of this original Rus', articulating the mythical and legendary stories, then recounts how, along the route leading from the Baltic to the Black Sea, cities and principalities emerged that were soon converted to Christianity.
Then comes the painting of the succession of the princes of kyiv, their fratricidal wars, their ambitions, their betrayals or their great deeds, which unfolds a vast legendary, epic, historical and romantic fresco where the Slavic, Scandinavian and Nordic worlds, the nomadic peoples of the steppes of Central Asia and the Mediterranean universes of the Byzantine Empire intermingle.
The Chronicle of Nestor is a monument, a common heritage, endowed with infinite riches, and of which no one can claim exclusive possession without degrading themselves.
At the beginning of the 12th century, in the Caves Monastery in Kiev, the monk Nestor began to write this Chronicle, which tells of the birth of a new world on the territory of the Eastern Slavs.
Written in the 12th century by the monk Nestor, this Chronicle , otherwise known as the Story of Times Past, is a tremendously ambitious undertaking. Its aim was to bring time into order and to bring the principality of Kiev, capital of what was then called Rus', into the continuity of universal Christian history. Beginning with the flood, Nestor evokes the birth of this original Rus', articulating the mythical and legendary stories, then recounts how, along the route leading from the Baltic to the Black Sea, cities and principalities emerged that were soon converted to Christianity.
Then comes the painting of the succession of the princes of kyiv, their fratricidal wars, their ambitions, their betrayals or their great deeds, which unfolds a vast legendary, epic, historical and romantic fresco where the Slavic, Scandinavian and Nordic worlds, the nomadic peoples of the steppes of Central Asia and the Mediterranean universes of the Byzantine Empire intermingle.
The Chronicle of Nestor is a monument, a common heritage, endowed with infinite riches, and of which no one can claim exclusive possession without degrading themselves.