1990/01/01 by Donald Ostrowski · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Byzantine Studies and History #Linguistics and language evolution
paper · doi:10.2307/2500544
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Sources of the first half of the fourteenth century provide evidence that a sharp rift in institutional continuity occurred in Muscovy. This rift constituted a kind of "punctuated equilibrium" in the evolutionary development of the Rus' political system. The political institutional structure inherited from the Vladimir-Suzdal' component of Kievan Rus' ended abruptly, and, concomitantly, a new political structure similar to that of the Kipchak Khanate was established. I contend in this article that the Muscovite princes introduced Mongol political and military institutions into Muscovy on a wide scale during the first half of the fourteenth century.