Medieval Russian Culture, Volume II

by Michael Flier, Daniel Rowland

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520308114
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/13/2022
Series:	California Slavic Studies
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Michael S. Flier is Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard University. Daniel Rowland is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky.
 

Table of Contents

Early East Slavic Literature As Sociocultural Fact, Norman W. Ingham
Old Russia's 'Intellectual Silence' Reconsidered, William R. Veder
The Life of Filipp, 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
Commerce and Pragmatic Literacy, Eduard Mühle
The Issue of a 'Nonstandard' Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Muscovite Rus', Olga Strakhov
Modeling the Genealogy of Maksim Grek's Collection Types, Hugh Olmsted
Early Russian Topoi of Deathbed and Testament, Daniel E. Collins
Pilgrimage, Procession, and Symbolic Space in Sixteenth-Century Russian Politics, Nancy S. Kollmann
Biblical Military Imagery in the Political Culture of Early Modern Russia, Daniel Rowland
Breaking the Code, Michael S. Flier

Author Biography: Michael S. Flier is Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard University. Daniel Rowland is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.