Srednevekovaja Rus'. Vyp. 7

P. V. LUKIN reinterprets Izyaslav Yaroslavich's move of the market from the Podol to the hill outside his palace in light of German churchmen's evidence concerning the Baltic Slavs in the twelfth century: market-places were supposed to have sacral significance and certain ones were equipped with platforms of some sort to facilitate addressing assemblies. Collation of charters and other written evidence with archaeological data leads him to infer considerable internal colonisation, starting in the second half of the thirteenth century, and a change towards more dispersed settlements; written sources from the 1330s onwards begin to refer to volosti and also to lands belonging to servitors of the princes of Moscow. E. L. KONYAVSKAYA analyses the sources for the judgement and deposition of Bishop Evfimiy of Tver in 1390 and demonstrates that the earliest account was composed by a member of the entourage of Mikhail of Tver, the prince responsible for Evfimiy's removal.