Other Slavic collections at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Thanks to a generous grant from the SSHRC of Canada in 1985, PIMS purchased on microfiche many serial publications of Imperial Russia from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These cover topics such as Church and political history, antiquities, archaeology, law, and numismatics. Since 1980 PIMS has also been acquiring materials on the medieval Balkans. The same criteria used for purchasing books for Kievan Rus’ and Muscovy are applied here. The Slavic Collection was expanded to provide research materials for the study of the Slavs in the so-called “Byzantine Commonwealth."