ISBN:
1501752111
,
1501752103
,
9781501752117
,
9781501752100
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 397 pages)
Series Statement:
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.20947/09031
Keywords:
Political culture
;
Kings and rulers
;
Political culture
;
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
;
Intellectual life
;
Russia Intellectual life
;
Moscow (Russia) Kings and rulers
;
Russia
;
Russia (Federation) ; Moscow
Abstract:
"A collection of essays, written over a period of fifty years, that represent a sustained effort to discover how early modern Russians (from the period roughly from 1450 to 1700) imagined their government and rulers"--
Abstract:
Kurbskii and the historians -- Towards an understanding or the political ideas in Ivan -- Timofeyev's Vremennik -- The problem of advice in Muscovite tales about the Time of Troubles -- Did Muscovite literary ideology place any limits on the power of the Tsar -- The memory of St. Sergius in sixteenth-century Russia -- The blessed host of the heavenly Tsar: biblical military -- imagery in Muscovy -- Moscow: the third Rome or the new Israel -- Architecture and dynasty: Boris Godunov's uses of Architecture, 1584-1606 -- Two cultures, one throne room: secular courtiers and Orthodox culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow Kremlin -- Architecture, image, and ritual in the throne rooms of Muscovite Russia -- Advice, advisers, and courtiers: decision-making and advice in the Royal Book volume of the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation -- Ivan IV as a Carolingian Renaissance prince -- Autocracy -- Muscovy -- Towards a new picture of Muscovite Russia.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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