About the Author

Martin Dimnik is Fellow and President Emeritus at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Toronto. His books include Mikhail, Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev, 1224-1246 (1981), The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1054-1146 (1994) and its sequel The Dynasty of Chernigov, 1146-1246 (2003) and, most recently, The Apocrypha of Adam and Eve in Russia: The For bidden Fruit (2010). He has also published numerous studies on a range of other topics, including biblical and scriptural studies and numismatics.