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- Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 354 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "Nineteen articles written by an international team of scholars representing a broad spectrum of fields showcase emerging work that adds depth and vibrancy to our understanding of early Russian and Ukrainian history. These studies shed light on political culture and ritual; the interaction of imagery, spirituality, and politics; religious praxis, social history; and early modern espionage. Several focus on the eighteenth century, probing cartography, pedagogy, and innovations in governance in Petrine Russia"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Seeing Muscovy anew (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Contents
- Seeing Muscovy anew : politics - institutions - culture -- Appreciation: Nancy Shields Kollmann : complete bibliography -- I. The politics of rule -- Novgorodian regnal lists : a reconsideration / Sergei Bogatyrev -- Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite political culture : cutting the gordian knot / Charles J. Halperin -- How bad was Ivan the Terrible? : the Oprichnik Oath and satanic spells in foreigners' accounts / Valerie A. Kivelson -- "To serve without regard to place" : precedence and royal in-laws at the weddings of Russia's rulers, 1525-1671 / Russell E. Martin -- II. Conflicted belief -- By dishonor in a bind : imperatives and paradoxes in the writings of Iosif Volotskii / David Goldfrank -- Unresolved evidentiary issues concerning Rus' : heretics of the late fifteenth-early sixteenth centuries / Donald Ostrowski -- III. Testimony of the visual -- Murder most foul : picturing the death of Andrei Bogoliubskii / Michael S. Flier -- Advice, advisers, and courtiers : decision making and advice in the Royal Book volume of the Illustrated Chronicle compilation / Daniel Rowland -- A world of visual splendor : the illustrated texts of Karion Istomin / Gary Marker -- Saint Stephen of Perm' and the dual faith phenomenon in Muscovite texts and images / Isolde Thyret -- IV. Institutions outside the box -- Women, the pomest'e system, and Muscovite state authority in the first half of the sixteenth century / Janet Martin -- Words and things : contemporary translations of the Russian institutional vocabulary (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Paul Bushkovitch -- Prison or asylum : the involuntary commitment of the insane to monasteries in early modern Russia / Eve Levin -- Honor and dishonor in eighteenth-century Russia / Alexander Kamenskii -- V. Empire and outer spaces -- Calculating the casualties of forced labor : Azov as a harbinger of Petrine policies / Brian J. Boeck -- Salt wars and salted coffee : at home with the Filat'evs / Erika Monahan -- When will the Turks attack? -- Habsburg espionage and actionable intelligence in the age of Grand Vezir Ahmed Köprülü (1661-76) / Georg B. Michels -- Princes and Cossacks : putting Ukraine on the map of Europe / Serhii Plokhy -- Paths, surfaces and borders : mapping the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century / Martina Winkler.
- LCCN
- 2017014721
- OCLC
- ssj0001925956
- Title
Seeing Muscovy anew [electronic resource] : politics - institutions - culture : essays in honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann / edited by Michael S. Flier, Valerie A. Kivelson, Erika Monahan, Daniel Rowland.
- Imprint
Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica, 2017.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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Flier, Michael S.
Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann)
Monahan, Erika.
Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941-
Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-