Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
,
UK. He is a Fellow of
Clare College
Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded ...
.
In 2007 he was awarded the
Lomonosov Gold Medal
The Lomonosov Gold Medal (russian: Большая золотая медаль имени М. В. Ломоносова ''Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova''), named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded ...
by the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...
for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.
Los Angeles Review of Books
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Selected bibliography
* ''Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus'' (Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retir ...
, 1991)
* (with Jonathan Shepard
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specialising in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. He specialises in diplomatic and archaeologica ...
) ''The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200'' (Longman, 1996)
* ''Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture'' Ashgate, 2002
* ''National Identity in Russian Culture. An Introduction'' (ed. with Emma Widdis) Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer.
Cambridge University Pre ...
, 2004
* ''Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
* ''Information and Empire. Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850'' (ed. with Katherine Bowers) (Open Book Publishers, 2017)
* ''The Russian Graphosphere 1450-1850'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
References
Living people
Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Cambridge
British historians
Recipients of the Lomonosov Gold Medal
Year of birth missing (living people)
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