Author:
Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941- author.
ImprintIthaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxix, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Kurbskii and the historians -- Towards an understanding of 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 limits on the power of the Tsar (1540s-1660s)? -- The memory of Saint Sergius in sixteenth-century Russia -- Biblical military imagery in the political culture of early modern Russia: the blessed host of the heavenly Tsar -- 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 the Terrible as a Carolingian Renaissance prince -- Autocracy -- Muscovy -- God, tsar, and people: some further thoughts.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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.
