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God, Tsar, and people : the political culture of early modern Russia / Daniel B. Rowland.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studiesPublication details: Ithaca, [New York] ; London : Northern Illinois University Press, 2020.Description: xix, 397 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781501753725 (pbk.)
  • 150175372X (pbk.)
  • 9781501752094 (hbk.)
  • 150175209X (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DK32.7 .R69 2020
Contents:
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 -- God, tsar, and people: some further thoughts.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- God, tsar, and people: some further thoughts.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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