God, Tsar, and people : the political culture of early modern Russia /
Daniel B. Rowland.
- Ithaca, [New York] ; London : Northern Illinois University Press, 2020.
- xix, 397 p. : ill.
- NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies .
- NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. .
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.