Format:
1 Online-Ressource (274 p.)
ISBN:
9780520312685
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0520312686
Series Statement:
California Slavic Studies
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- From the Medieval Perspective -- From the Modern Perspective -- Textual Studies and Theories of Interpretation -- Early East Slavic Literature as Sociocultural Fact -- Old Russia's ""Intellectual Silence"" Reconsidered -- The Life of Saint Filipp: Tsar and Metropolitan in the Late Sixteenth Century -- Fifteenth-Century Chronicles as a Source for the History of the Formation of the Muscovite State -- Determining the Authorship of the Trinity Chronicle -- Theory and Practice
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Commerce and Pragmatic Literacy: The Evidence of Birchbark Documents (Mid-Eleventh to the First Quarter of Thirteenth Century) on the Early Urban Development of Novgorod -- The Issue of a ""Nonstandard"" Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Muscovite Rus': Metropolitan Aleksij, Maksim Grek, Epifanij Slavineckij -- Modeling the Genealogy of Maksim Grek's Collection Types: The ""Plectogram"" as Visual Aid in Reconstruction -- Early Russian Topoi of Deathbed and Testament -- Extending the Limits of the Text -- Pilgrimage, Procession, and Symbolic Space in Sixteenth-Century Russian Politics
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Biblical Military Imagery in the Political Culture of Early Modern Russia: The Blessed Host of the Heavenly Tsar -- Breaking the Code: The Image of the Tsar in the Muscovite Palm Sunday Ritual -- Notes on Contributors -- Workshop Participants -- Name Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520359208
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Flier, Michael Medieval Russian Culture, Volume II Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520359208
Language:
English
