Christian Raffensperger

Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in Humanities at Wittenberg University, as well as a professor and chair of History. He is currently the Archie K. Davis Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He has published several books dealing with the history of Kyivan Rus' and medieval Eastern Europe, including Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World, 988–1146 (2012), Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus' (2016), The Kingdom of Rus' (2017), and Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (2018). Raffensperger's studies present the Rus' state not as a principality or a collection of principalities but as one of the realms of medieval Europe.