The Tsar's happy occasion : ritual and dynasty in the weddings of Russia's rulers, 1495-1745 /
"Using an array of archival sources, this book argues that royal weddings in early modern Russia reflected and shaped court politics in those centuries of dramatic cultural and dynastic change"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Time to attend to the wedding": origins and traditions
- "A canonical marriage for the uninterrupted succession to your royal dynasty": royal weddings and dynastic legitimacy
- "And unlike previous royal weddings, there was no great assembly": continuity and change
- "To live together in holy matrimony": orthodox and heterodox
- "To serve without regard for place": kin and courtiers
- "To see your royal children on the thrones": brides and gifts
- "Delight in exposing the old methods of the country": transfigurations and parodies
- "There will not be any direful reversions": heirs and successors.