Seeing Muscovy anew
Subtitle: politics, institutions, culture : essays in honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann
By: edited by Michael S. Flier, Valerie A. Kivelson, Erika Monahan, Daniel Rowland
Publisher: Slavica
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780893574819
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Seeing Muscovy anew : politics; title: institutions; title: culture; title: Appreciation: Nancy Shields Kollmann : complete bibliography; title: I. The politics of rule; title: Novgorodian regnal lists : a reconsideration / Sergei Bogatyrev; title: Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite political culture : cutting the gordian knot / Charles J. Halperin; title: How bad was Ivan the Terrible? : the Oprichnik Oath and satanic spells in foreigners' accounts / Valerie A. Kivelson; title: "To serve without regard to place" : precedence and royal in-laws at the weddings of Russia's rulers, 1525-1671 / Russell E. Martin; title: II. Conflicted belief; title: By dishonor in a bind : imperatives and paradoxes in the writings of Iosif Volotskii / David Goldfrank; title: Unresolved evidentiary issues concerning Rus' : heretics of the late fifteenth-early sixteenth centuries / Donald Ostrowski; title: III. Testimony of the visual; title: Murder most foul : picturing the death of Andrei Bogoliubskii / Michael S. Flier; title: Advice, advisers, and courtiers : decision making and advice in the Royal Book volume of the Illustrated Chronicle compilation / Daniel Rowland; title: A world of visual splendor : the illustrated texts of Karion Istomin / Gary Marker; title: Saint Stephen of Perm' and the dual faith phenomenon in Muscovite texts and images / Isolde Thyret; title: IV. Institutions outside the box; title: Women, the pomest'e system, and Muscovite state authority in the first half of the sixteenth century / Janet Martin; title: Words and things : contemporary translations of the Russian institutional vocabulary (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Paul Bushkovitch; title: Prison or asylum : the involuntary commitment of the insane to monasteries in early modern Russia / Eve Levin; title: Honor and dishonor in eighteenth-century Russia / Alexander Kamenskii; title: V. Empire and outer spaces; title: Calculating the casualties of forced labor : Azov as a harbinger of Petrine policies / Brian J. Boeck; title: Salt wars and salted coffee : at home with the Filat'evs / Erika Monahan; title: When will the Turks attack?; title: Habsburg espionage and actionable intelligence in the age of Grand Vezir Ahmed Köprülü (1661-76) / Georg B. Michels; title: Princes and Cossacks : putting Ukraine on the map of Europe / Serhii Plokhy; title: Paths, surfaces and borders : mapping the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century / Martina Winkler.