Janet L. B. Martin

Janet Louise Block Martin (born 24 January 1945 ) is an American historian specialising in Old East Slavic literature and medieval history of Kievan Rus' and its successors. She is Professor Emerita at the Department of History at the University of Miami.

Biography
Martin obtained her PhD in Russian history at the University of Chicago in 1980. Her PhD dissertation was titled Treasure of the Land of Darkness: A Study of the Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (X-XVI Centuries). Reviewer Maureen Helena Berry (1982) called the variety of sources Martin used "impressive".

Monographs

 * Martin, Janet, Treasure of the Land of Darkness: A Study of the Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (X-XVI Centuries) (1980). University of Chicago. PhD dissertation.
 * (based on her 1980 PhD dissertation, originally published in 1986)
 * (original). Later editions:
 * (first published)
 * (digital printing 2004)

Book chapters (selection)

 * (third edition)
 * (third edition)