"Elegant writing always looks effortless and the same is true of persuasive historical research. Mikhailova merits such praise. Her work brings together two major medieval historiographical themes usually treated in isolation from one another: western feudo-vassalic relations and the nature of power, authority, and land tenure in Rus (medieval Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia), in order to suggest that the latter had some similarities to the former." - Talia Zajac, University of Manchester,
The Medieval Review, 2019
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