Medieval Russian Culture, Volume II

Michael Flier, Daniel Rowland

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520308114
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520312685
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

A stimulating and provocative collection, these essays challenge received notions about the culture and history of medieval Russia and offer fresh approaches to problems of textual interpretation, the theory of the medieval text, and the analysis of alternative, nonverbal texts. The contributors, international specialists from many disciplines, investigate issues ranging over history, cultural anthropology, art history, and ritual. They have produced a worthy companion to the first volume of Medieval Russian Culture, published in 1984. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• ABBREVIATIONS
• EDITORS’ PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• FROM THE MEDIEVAL PERSPECTIVE RICHARD POPE
• FROM THE MODERN PERSPECTIVE JAMES CRACRAFT
• TEXTUAL STUDIES AND THEORIES OF INTERPRETATION
• EARLY EAST SLAVIC LITERATURE AS SOCIOCULTURAL FACT NORMAN W. INGHAM
• OLD RUSSIA’S “INTELLECTUAL SILENCE” RECONSIDERED WILLIAM R. VEDER
• THE LIFE OF SAINT FILIPP TSAR AND METROPOLITAN IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY PAUL BUSHKOVITCH
• FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CHRONICLES AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE MUSCOVITE STATE JAKOV S. LURIA
• DETERMINING THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE TRINITY CHRONICLE BORIS M. KLOSS
• THEORY AND PRACTICE
• COMMERCE AND PRAGMATIC LITERACY THE EVIDENCE OF BIRCHBARK DOCUMENTS (FROM THE MID-ELEVENTH TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY) ON THE EARLY URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF NOVGOROD EDUARD MUHLE
• THE ISSUE OF A “NONSTANDARD” TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES IN MUSCOVITE RUS’ METROPOLITAN ALEKSIJ, MAKSIM GREK, EPIFANIJ SLAVINECKIJ OLGA STRAKHOV
• MODELING THE GENEALOGY OF MAKSIM GREK’S COLLECTION TYPES THE “PLECTOGRAM” AS VISUAL AID IN RECONSTRUCTION HUGH OLMSTED
• EARLY RUSSIAN TOPOI OF DEATHBED AND TESTAMENT DANIEL E. COLLINS
• EXTENDING THE LIMITS OF THE TEXT
• PILGRIMAGE, PROCESSION AND SYMBOLIC SPACE IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN POLITICS NANCY S. KOLLMANN
• BIBLICAL MILITARY IMAGERY IN THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF EARLY MODERN RUSSIA THE BLESSED HOST OF THE HEAVENLY TSAR DANIEL ROWLAND
• BREAKING THE CODE THE IMAGE OF THE TSAR IN THE MUSCOVITE PALM SUNDAY RITUAL MICHAEL S. FLIER
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• PARTICIPANTS IN THE FIRST SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MEDIEVAL EAST SLAVIC CULTURE
• INDEX