Debate with a subscriber from Estonia: Yuriev (Tartu) and the method of parallel sources (22.11.2021)

Date
22 November 2021
Duration
13:44
Platform
YouTube

A conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsya and a Russian-speaking subscriber from Estonia. Among the historical topics is the chronicle founding of Yuriev (present-day Tartu) by Yaroslav the Wise in 1030: an example of how an account of a city’s founding drawn from a single source is tested against parallel (Scandinavian, Estonian, archaeological) evidence.

Key moments

  1. 01:22 The Treaty of Nystad: did Peter I 'buy' the Baltics for 2 million thalers
  2. 03:05 The 'Old Rus'' and 'Russian' state as conventional names (per the Russian encyclopedia)
  3. 04:08 Yuriev (Tartu): the chronicle founding by Yaroslav the Wise in 1030
  4. 04:51 The method of parallel sources: why the 'city of Yuriy' has no corroboration
  5. 05:34 The ethnogenesis of the Goths and the Chernyakhiv culture

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