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An academy at the court of the tsars : Greek scholars and Jesuit education in early modern Russia /

"In this original work, Nikolaos A. Chrissidis analyzes the academy's impact on Russian educational practice and situates it in the contexts of Russian-Greek cultural relations and increased contact between Russia and Western Europe in the seventeenth century. Chrissidis demonstrates that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chrissidis, Nikolaos A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : of Grecophiles and Latinophiles
  • Limning the commonwealth : of Greeks and Russians in the seventeenth century
  • The wandering Greeks : from Italy to Russia
  • Establishing an academy in Moscow
  • The curriculum in Action I : the rhetoric course
  • The curriculum in Action II : investigating the heavens
  • Rhetoric, physics, and court culture in late seventeenth-century Muscovy
  • Conclusion : education, westernization, and secularization in early modern Russia.