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Roman Kovalev

Associate Professor of History

Russia, Eurasia, and Medieval Economic History

University of Minnesota (PhD, 2002)

kovalev@tcnj.edu

609-771-2258

Social Sciences 215

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Th.S. Noonan, R.K. Kovalev, Dirham Hoards from Medieval Western Eurasia, c. 700-c. 1100 [Commentationes De Nummis Saeculorum IX-XI in Suecia Repertis. Nova series 13] (Stockholm) (in preparation).

 

Volumes Edited

  • Editor of the journal Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi
  • Russian History/Histoire Russe 28: 1-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 1] (2001) (co-edited with H.M. Sherman)
  • Russian History/Histoire Russe 32: 3-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 2] (2005) (co-edited with H.M. Sherman)
  • The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans, Edited by Florin Curta, with the assistance of Roman Kovalev (Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2008).

 

Articles

  • "Dereviannaia schetnaia Birka-sorochok 2-i poloviny XI v. iz Staroi Russy” (“Wooden Accounting Tally-Sorochok of the First Half of the XI Century from Staraia Russa”), Khoroshie dni… Pamiati Aleksandra Stepanovicha Khorosheva (Velikii Novgorod-St. Petersburg-Moscow, 2009), 314-318.
  • “Prayer, Illumination, and Good Times: The Export of Byzantine Wine and Oil to the North of Russia in Pre-Mongol Times,” Byzantium and the North, Acta Byzantina Fennica, 8: 1995-1996 (1997), 73-96 (with Th.S. Noonan). Also published in The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia [Series: The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500], ed. Jonathan Shepard (Ashgate-Variorum, 2007), 161-184.
  • “Chto govoriat berestianye gramoty ob ekonomike Kievskoi Rusi” (“What Do the Birch-Bark Texts Tell Us About the Economy of Kievan Rus’?”), Russian History/Histoire Russe [Festschrift for A.A. Zimin, ed. by P.B. Brown], 25, nos.1-2 (1998), 27-49. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “The Development and Diffusion of Glassmaking in Pre-Mongol Russia,” The Prehistory and History of Glassmaking Technology: Ceramics and Civilization, Vol. VIII, ed. P. McCray and W.D. Kingery (Westerville, OH, 1998), 293-314. (with Th.S. Noonan & H.M. Sherman)
  • “Wine and Oil For All the Rus’!: The Import of Byzantine Wine and Oil to Kievan Rus’,” Byzantium and the North, Acta Byzantina Fennica, Vol. 9: 1997-1998 (1999), 87-121 (with Th.S. Noonan). Also published in The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia [Series: The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500], ed. Jonathan Shepard (Ashgate-Variorum, 2007), 185-220.
  • “Zvenyhorod in Galicia: An Archaeological Survey (Eleventh – Mid-Thirteenth Century,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 24, no.2 (1999), 7-36.
  • “Neizvestnyi klad nachala IX v. iz imeniia M.A. Obolenskogo Dmitrovskogo uezda Moskovskoi gubernii” (“The 1846 Obolenskii Hoard: A New Early Ninth-Century Viking-Age Dirham Hoard from Glukhovo in Moscow Province”), Arkheologicheskie vesti 7 (2000), 206-217 (with an extensive English summary). (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “The Dirham Output of the Spanish Umayyad Emirate, ca. 756-ca. 929,” Homenagem A Mário Gomes Marques, eds. M. Castro Hipólito et al (Sintra, 2000), 253-260. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “What Can Archaeology Tell Us About How Debts Were Documented and Collected in Kievan Rus’?” Russian History/Histoire Russe 27, no.2 (2000), 119-154. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “Novgorodskie dereviannye birki: obshchie nabliudeniia” (“Novgorodian Wooden Tallies: General Observations”), Rossiiskaia arkheologiia, no.1 (2002), 38-50.
  • “The Infrastructure of the Northern Part of the ‘Fur Road’ Between the Middle Volga and the East During the Middle Ages,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 11 (2000-2001), 25-64.
  • “Introduction,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 28: 1-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 1, ed. by R.K. Kovalev & H.M. Sherman] (2001), 1-7. (with H.M. Sherman)
  • “Mint Output in Tenth-Century Bukhara: A Case Study of Dirham Production and Monetary Circulation in Northern Europe,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 28: 1-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. I, ed. by R.K. Kovalev & H.M. Sherman] (2001), 245-271.
  • “Tomas Nunan: In Memoriam,” Numizmaticheskii almanakh, no.1 (2002), 19-23. (with G. Rispling)
  • “The Dirham Output and Monetary Circulation of a Secondary Samanid Mint: A Case Study of Balkh,” Moneta Mediævalis: Studia numizmatyczne i historyczne ofiarowane Profesorowi  Stanisławowi Suchodolskiemu w 65. rocznicę urodzin, ed. R. Kiersnowski, et al (Warsaw, 2002), 163-174. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “In memoriam: Thomas S. Noonan, 1938-2001,” Kritika 3:2 (2002), 369-371.
  • “Klad dirkhemov 913/14 g. iz der. Pal’tsevo Tver’skoi gub.” (“The 913/14 Dirham Hoard From Pal’tsevo in Tver’ Province”), Klady: sostav, khronologiia, interpretatsiia. Materialy tematicheskoi nauchnoi konferentsii (St. Petersburg, November 26-29, 2002) (St. Petersburg, 2002), 160-164.
  • “Klad 873/74 gg. iz Liubyni: Voiny i zakhoronenie kladov v epokhu Riurika” (The 873/74 Hoard from Liubyni: Warfare and Hoarding During the Age of Riurik) Klady: sostav, khronologiia, interpretatsiia. Materialy tematicheskoi nauchnoi konferentsii (St. Petersburg, November 26-29, 2002) (St. Petersburg, 2002), 152-156. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “Dirham Mint Output of Samanid Samarqand and its Connection to the Beginnings of Trade with Northern Europe (10th century),” Histoire et Mesure [Monnaie et espace], vol. 17, nos.3-4 (2002), 197-216.
  • “‘Karvestokker – Middelalderens’ Regneark,” SPOR – nytt fra fortiden no.2:17 (Trondheim, 2002), 37-39.
  • “Counting in the New World: Two Early Modern Tallies From Newfoundland and Labrador,” Avalon Chronicles 7 (2002), 73-81.
  • “Thomas S. Noonan: In Memoriam,” Revue numismatique 158 (2002), 375-383. (with G. Rispling)
  • “Birki-sorochki: upakovka mekhovykh shkurok v Srednevekovom Novgorode” (“40s-Tallies: Packaging Pelts in Medieval Novgorod”), Novgorodskii istoricheskii sbornik, vol. 9 (St. Petersburg, 2003), 36-56.
  • “Dereviannye dolgovye birki-sorochki XI-XII vv. iz Novgorodskoi kollektsii” (“Wooden Credit 40s-Tallies of the XI-XII Centuries from Medieval Novgorod”), Novgorodskii istoricheskii sbornik, vol. 9 (St. Petersburg, 2003), 28-35.
  • “Ganzeiskaia (‘diuzhinnaia’) schetnaia birka s Gotskogo raskopa srednevekovogo Novgoroda” (“The Hansa (‘Dozen’) Accounting Tally from the Gothic Dig of Medieval Novgorod”), Ot Drevnei Rusi k Rossii novogo vremeni: sbornik statei k 70- letiiu Anny Leonidovny Khoroshkevich, ed.  V.L. Ianin (Moscow, 2003), 276-279.
  • “K voprosu o proiskhozhdenii sorochka: po materialam berestianykh gramot” (“On the Question of the Origins of the Sorochok: Based on the Materials of the Birch-Barks”), Berestianye gramoty: 50 let izucheniia: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii. Velikii Novgorod, 24-27 sentiabria 2001 g. ed. V.L. Ianin (Moscow, 2003), 57-72.
  • “The Mint of al-Shash: The Vehicle For the Origins and Continuation of Trade Relations Between Viking-Age Northern Europe and Samanid Central Asia,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 12 (2002-2003), 47-79.
  • “Bol’shoi klad dirkhemov nachala epokhi vikingov naidennyi v 2000 g. v g. Kozel’ske, Kaluzhskoi obl.” (“A Large Early Viking-age Dirham Hoard Found in 2000 in Kozel’sk, Kaluga ob.”), Arkheologicheskie vesti 10 (2003) (with an extensive English summary), 149-163. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “The ‘Furry Forties:’ Packaging Pelts in Medieval Northern Europe,” States, Societies, Cultures: East and West [Essays in Honor of Jaroslav Pelenski] (New York, 2004), 653-682. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “What Does Historical Numismatics Suggest About the Monetary History of Khazaria in The Ninth Century? – Question Revisited,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 13 (2004), 97-129.
  • “Creating ‘Khazar Identity’ Through Coins – The ‘Special Issue’ Dirhams of 837/38,” East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Florin Curta (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2005), 220-253.
  •  “Commerce and Caravan Routes Along the Northern Silk Road (Sixth-Ninth Centuries) – Part I: The Western Sector,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 14 (2005), 55-105.
  • “Introduction,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 32: 3-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 2, ed. R.K. Kovalev and H.M. Sherman] (2005), 267-268. (with H.M. Sherman)
  • “Circulation of Arab Silver in Medieval Afro-Eurasia,” History Compass 5/1 (2007), 1-21. (with Alexis C. Kaelin)
  • “Accounting, Tag, and Credit Tallies,” Wood Use in Medieval Novgorod, eds. M. Brisbane, J. Hather (London, 2007), 189-202.
  • “Production and Circulation of Dirhams From the Mint of Damascus (Dimashq) in the First Four Centuries of Islam (Copenhagen, in the press).
  • “Dereviannaia schetnaia birka-sorochok 2-i poloviny XI v. iz Staroi Russy” (“Wooden Accounting Tally-Sorochok of the First Half of the XI Century from Staraia Russa”), Memorial Volume in Honor of A.S. Khoroshev (Moscow, in the press).

 

Review Articles

  • “Critica: E.P. Kazakov, Kul’tura rannei Volzhskoi Bolgarii,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 9 (1997), 319-335.
  • “Book Review: N.A. Makarov, Kolonizatsiia severnykh okrain Drevnei Rusi v XI-XIII vekakh,” Fennoscandia Archaeologica, 15 (1998), 78-81.
  • “Critica: S.A. Pletneva, Sarkel i ‘shelkovyi’ put’,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 10 (1999), 245-254.
  • “Critica: Finno-Ugrica & Arkheologiia Tatarii: Two New Journals From Kazan’,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 10 (1999), 255-260. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “Dva novykh zhurnala v Kazani. Tatarskaia arkheologiia. Finno-Ugrica,” Finno-Ugrica, 1:4 (2000) 79-82. (with Th.S. Noonan)

Book Reviews

  • “Book Review: B. Strumiński, Linguistic Interrelations in Early Rus’: Northmen, Finns, and East Slavs (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries),” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 23, no.1 (1998), 143-145. (with Th.S. Noonan)
  • “Book Review: A.E. Leont’ev, Arkheologiia meri. K predystorii Severo-Vostochnoi Rusi (The Archaeology of the Merya),” Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 9, no.1 (2000), 137-138.
  • “Book Review: Endre Bojtár, Forward to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic Peoples,” Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 10, no.2 (2001), 276-277. (with A. Lelis)
  • “Book Review: Martin Dimnik, The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246,” Speculum, Vol. 81:1 (2006), pp. 174-176.
  • “Book Review: Wladyslaw Duczko, Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe,” Speculum 82:1 (2007), pp. 177-179.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History (Academic International Press, Gulf Breeze, 2000-)

  • “Bania,” vol. 3 (2000), pp. 193-195.
  • “Bannik,” vol. 3 (2000), pp. 197-198.
  • “Beloozero,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 109-114. (with H.M. Sherman)
  • “Berkovets,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 139-140.
  • “Biliar-Bulgar,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 157-160.
  • “Birch-Bark Texts,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 162-165.
  • “Birka (Tally),” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 165-171.
  • “Bridges, Roads, and Pavements in Kievan Rus’,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 230-233.
  • “Boats, Ships, and Water Transport in Kievan Rus’,” vol. 4 (2003), pp. 190-195.
  • “Byzantine Wine and Oil in Kievan Rus’,” vol. 5 (2004), pp. 68-73.
  • “Charity and Patronage in Kievan Rus’,” vol. 5 (2004), pp. 188-192.
  • “Credit and Moneylending in Medieval Rus’ (ca. 1000-1450),” vol. 7 (2006), pp. 120-124.
  • “Domovoi,” vol. (2007), pp. 102-104.
  • “Forties” (in the press).

 

Encyclopedia of Russian History (Macmillan Reference USA, New York, 2003)

  • “Altyn,” vol. 1, p. 55.
  • “Astrakhan, Khanate of,” vol. 1, pp. 92-93.
  • “Banya,” vol. 1, pp. 122-123.
  • “Chastushka,” vol. 1, p. 230.
  • “Cimmerians,” vol. 1, p. 263.
  • “Denga,” vol. 1, p. 380.
  • “Grivna,” vol. 2, p. 610.
  • “Huns,” vol. 2, pp. 646-647.
  • “Khazars,” vol. 2, pp. 739-740.
  • “Maslenitsa,” vol. 3, pp. 903-904.
  • “Nogai,” vol. 3, p. 1059.
  • “Pechenegs,” vol. 3, pp. 1156-1157.
  • “Polovtsy/Cumans/Kipchaks,” vol. 3, pp. 1202-1203.
  • “Poliane,” vol. 3, pp. 1203-1204.
  • “Route to Greeks,” vol. 3, pp. 1305-1306.
  • “Scythians,” vol. 4, p. 1356.
  • “Torki/Oghuz,” vol. 4, p. 1560-1561.
  • “Witchcraft,” vol. 4, p. 1669.

World Trade: A Historical Encyclopedia of Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture, ed. Cynthia Northrup (M.E. Sharpe: New York, 2005), vol. 1-4.

  • “Dirham,” vol. 1, p. 273-274.
  • “Ivory,” vol. 2, pp. 544-545.
  • “Tally-Sticks,” vol. 3, pp. 871-872.
  • “Timber/Sorochok,” vol. 3, p. 899.
  • “Wine,” vol. 4, pp. 969-970.

 

Bibliographic Works

  • “Viking Age Dirham Hoards From Eastern and Northern Europe,” A Survey of Numismatic Research 1990-1995: International Association of Professional Numismatists Special Publication, no.13 (Berlin, 1997), 751-759. (with Th.S. Noonan & G. Rispling)
  • “Bibliography of Th.S. Noonan,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 28: 1-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 1, ed. R.K. Kovalev and H.M. Sherman] (2001), 7-28.
  • “Addenda to the Bibliography of Th.S. Noonan,” Russian History/Histoire Russe 32: 3-4 [Festschrift for Th.S. Noonan, Vol. 2, ed. R.K. Kovalev and H.M. Sherman] (2005), 271-272.


 

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