Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics - Institutions - Culture: Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann

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"Nineteen articles written by an international team of scholars representing a broad spectrum of fields showcase emerging work that adds depth and vibrancy to our understanding of early Russian and Ukrainian history. These studies shed light on political culture and ritual; the interaction of imagery, spirituality, and politics; religious praxis, social history; and early modern espionage. Several focus on the eighteenth century, probing cartography, pedagogy, and innovations in governance in Petrine Russia"--Provided by publisher. Contents Introduction Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture Nancy Shields Kollmann: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor Nancy Shields Kollmann: Complete Bibliography I. The Politics of Rule Novgorodian Regnal Lists: A Reconsideration Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite Political Culture: Cutting the Gordian Knot How Bad Was Ivan the Terrible? The Oprichnik Oath and Satanic Spells in Foreigners’ Accounts “To Serve Without Regard to Place”: Precedence and Royal In-Laws at the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1525–1671 II. Conflicted Belief By Dishonor in a Bind—Imperatives and Paradoxes in the Writings of Iosif Volotskii Unresolved Evidentiary Issues Concerning Rus´ Heretics of the Late Fifteenth−Early Sixteenth Centuries III. Testimony of the Visual Murder Most Foul: Picturing the Death of Andrei Bogoliubskii Advice, Advisers, and Courtiers: Decision Making and Advice in the Royal Book of the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation A World of Visual Splendor: The Illustrated Texts of Karion Istomin Saint Stephen of Perm´ and the Dual Faith Phenomenon in Muscovite Texts and Images IV. Institutions Outside the Box Women, the Pomest´e System, and Muscovite State Authority in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century Words and Things: Contemporary Translations of the Russian Institutional Vocabulary (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) Prison or Asylum: The Involuntary Commitment of the Insane to Monasteries in Early Modern Russia Honor and Dishonor in Eighteenth-Century Russia V. Empire and Outer Spaces Calculating the Casualties of Forced Labor: Azov as a Harbinger of Petrine Policies Salt Wars and Salted Coffee: At Home with the Filat´evs When Will the Turks Attack? Habsburg Espionage and Actionable Intelligence in the Age of Grand Vezir Ahmed K.prülü (1661–76) Princes and Cossacks: Putting Ukraine on the Map of Europe Paths, Surfaces and Borders: Mapping the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century Illustrations