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Seeing Muscovy Anew : Politics-Institutions-Culture. Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann /

"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 i...

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Otros Autores: Flier, Michael S. (Editor ), Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann) (Editor ), Monahan, Erika (Editor ), Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941- (Editor ), Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950- (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.