Simon Franklin


Simon Franklin is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of Clare College.
In 2007 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in research in Russian history and culture.

Selected bibliography

Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200 Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture Ashgate, 2002National Identity in Russian Culture. An Introduction Cambridge University Press, 2004Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300 Information and Empire. Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850
  • ''The Russian Graphosphere 1450-1850''