Dubitando : studies in history and culture in honor of Donald Ostrowski / edited by Brian J. Boeck, Russell E. Martin, Daniel Rowland.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ostrowski, Donald G., honouree.
• Boeck, Brian J., 1971-
• Martin, Russell, 1963-
• Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Russia--Civilization.
• Russia.
• Civilization.
• Russia--History.
• History.
• Kievan Rus--Civilization.
• Kievan Rus--History.

Genre:

• Festschriften.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

The title, Latin for "by doubting," was chosen to signify Ostrowski's doubting and questioning of documentary sources and interpretive models during his entire career as a historian of early Russia and Ukraine. After tributes and a bibliography, 31 essays discuss Rus' and Eurasia; rulers and rulership; the church and religious belief and custom; texts, images, contexts; and land, people, and society in Muscovy. Among the topics are archaeological finds of camels in pre-Mongol Rus', the Muslim Tatars of Muscovy and Lithuania, the Tale of the Death of Vasilii Ivanovich and the evolution of the Muscovite tsaritsa's role in 16th-century Russia, the elusive Apollo 8 earthrise photograph, the Dormition Cathedral of the Mother of God Monastery in Sviiazhsk, and rape and military courts in Petrine Russia. There is no index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

• A tribute to a doubter and questioner / Daniel Rowland
• An appreciation of Donald Ostrowski / Brian J. Boeck
• Rus' and Eurasia. Huns and Xiōngnú: new thoughts on an old problem / Christopher P. Atwood
• Archaeological finds of camels in pre-Mongol Rus': a reassessment / Inés García de la Puente
• Ne ptestupati predela bratnia / Oleksiy Tolochko
• "...a godly regiment in the heavens came to help Aleksandr...": sanctity of heroic princes in Kievan Rus' / Susana Torres Prieto
• For want of coin: some remarks on the Mongol tribute and the problem of the circulation of silver / Lawrence Langer
• Legal foundations of Novgorod-Hansa trade in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries/ George G. Weickhardt
• The muslim tatars of Muscovy and Lithuania: some introductory remarks / Bulat M. Rahimzyanov
• The Don interpolation: an imagined turning point in Russian relations with the Tatar world / Brian J. Boeck
• "Thus we shall have their loyalty and they our favor": diplomatic hostage-taking (amanatstvo) and Russian empire in Caucasia / Sean Pollock
• Rulers and rulership. Believing is seeing: princess spotting in St. Sofia of Kiev / Elena N. Boeck
• Envisioning the ruler in medieval Rus': The iconography of intercession and architecture / Michael S. Flier
• Ruslan Skrynnikov on Ivan IV / Charles J. Halperin
• The tale of the death of Vasilii Ivanovich and the evolution of the Muscovite tsaritsa's role in 16th-century Russia / Isolde Thyrét
• Law, succession, and the 18th-century refounding of the Romanov dynasty / Russell E. Martin
• The church and religious belief and custom. Adversus haereticos novgorodensos: Iosif Volotskii's rhetorical syllogisms / David Goldfrank
• A venerable elder: Varsunofii Iakimov of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery / David B. Miller
• Caught in the act: an illustration of erotic magic at work / Valerie Kivelson
• Prayer: a golden galaxy of virtue / Nickolas Lupinin
• Texts, images, contexts. Glagolitic books in Rus' / William R. Veder
• The "Legend of Gorislava" (not "Rogned" or "Rogneda"): an edition, commentary, and translation / Francis Butler
• The curious (and happy) story of an important source for Muscovite cultural history: the Dormition Cathedral of the Mother of God monastery in Sviiazhsk / Daniel Rowland
• An overlooked Anglo-Russian tale of the Time of Troubles / Chester S.L. Dunning
• Pictures at an execution: Johann Georg Korb's execution of the strel'tsy / Nancy S. Kollmann
• The elusive Apollo 8 earthrise photo / Fred Spier
• Land, people, and society in Muscovy. Ni pes ni vyzhlets ni gonchaia sobaka: images of dogs in Rus' / Ann Kleimola
• Muscovy as a clan-based state / K. Woodworth
• Netstvo and the conditionality of pomest'e land tenure / Janet Martin
• Anna Dorothea and the major: rape and military courts in petrine Russia / Carol B. Stevens
• Should cossacks be allowed to sell their land? / John Ledonne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9780893574048
• 089357404X

OCLC:

814982228