Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs 900–1700

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“…На юге же варяги оказываются сравнительно поздно -только после единоличного вокняжения Владимира Святославича (980 г.) 15 .…”

“…14 The Varangians found themselves in the south relatively late, only after the start of Vladimir the Great's sole reign (980). 15 The obvious antagonism of the north and the south in the Varangian topos is also emphasized by the phrase "the Warm Sea," which was uncharacteristic for chronicles. It can only be opposed to the Cold, i.e.…”

“…14 The work of the American researcher E. Levina reveals the attitude of the Old Russian clergy to the use of various methods of preventing and terminating pregnancy by women. 15 Other issues of reproductive behavior in the Old Russian family have been left out of sight of foreign authors.…”

The Veiling of Women in Byzantium: Liturgy, Hair, and Identity in a Medieval Rite of Passage

“…Late medieval Orthodox Christian Slavs held that blood flow made a woman ritually unclean and thereby unfit for entry into the church building. 203 While extant literary sources focus on menstrual and postpartum seclusion of women from church life, it is likely that similar ideas were projected onto the consummation of a first marriage, since society expected blood flow on this occasion. 204 Thus, within some East Slavic communities, the text of the head-binding rite was linked not only to a woman's sexual transformation, as it is in the Serbian manuscript, but also to her ritual purification.…”

Report on the State of Research of the Legal Status of Women in the Great Moravian Society. Reflection in the Czech, Moravian, and Slovak Historiography

“…26 Pokud jde o slovanské prostředí, ojedinělou zůstává práce z pera Eve levin o slovanské ženě. Její Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 27 kniha, která zahájila moderní etapu studia gendru ve slovanském milieu, se věnuje slovanskému ortodoxnímu prostředí, ale až od 10. století. Netýká | 53 | se tedy velkomoravského období a je z hlediska předmětu našeho zájmu okrajová.…”