God, Tsar, and people : the political culture of early modern Russia /

Rowland, Daniel B. 1941-

God, Tsar, and people : the political culture of early modern Russia / Daniel B. Rowland. - Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xix, 397 pages). - NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies .

Includes bibliographies 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 -- Towards a new picture of Muscovite Russia.

"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"--



9781501752117 9781501752100

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Political culture--Russia.


Electronic Books.

DK32 / .G638 2020