An academy at the court of the tsars : Greek scholars and Jesuit education in early modern Russia / Nikolaos Chrissidis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chrissidis, Nikolaos A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moskovskai︠a︡ slavi︠a︡no-greko-latinskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡--History.

Moskovskai︠a︡ slavi︠a︡no-greko-latinskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡.

Leichoudēs, Iōannikios, 1633-1717.

Leichoudēs, Iōannikios.

Leichoudēs, Sōphronios, 1652-1730.

Leichoudēs, Sōphronios.

Jesuits--Education--Russia--History--17th century.

Jesuits.

Moskovskai͡a slavi͡ano-greko-latinskai͡a akademii͡a.

Education, Higher--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--17th century.

Education, Higher.

Greeks--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--17th century.

Greeks.

Education.

History.

Russia.

Russia (Federation)--Moscow.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2015]

Summary:

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Italy that had adopted a version of the Jesuit curriculum. When they created a school in Moscow, known as the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy, they emulated the structural characteristics, pedagogical methods, and program of studies of Jesuit prototypes. This is the first detailed study of the academy in English and is based on intensive investigation of primary sources in Russian, Church Slavonic, Greek, and Latin. Nikolaos Chrissidis analyzes the academy's curriculum and situates it in the contexts of Russian-Greek cultural relations and of the increased contacts between Russia and Western Europe in the seventeenth century. Chrissidis demonstrates that Greek academic and cultural influences on Russia in the second half of the seventeenth century were Western in character, though Orthodox in doctrinal terms. He also shows that Russian and Greek educational enterprises were part of the larger European pattern of Jesuit academic activities that impacted Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox educational establishments and curricular choices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : of Grecophiles and Latinophiles : historiographical excursus

Limning the commonwealth : of Greeks and Russians in the seventeenth century

The wandering Greeks : from Italy to Russia

Establishing an academy in Moscow

The curriculum in Action I : the rhetoric course

The curriculum in Action II : investigating the heavens

Rhetoric, physics, and court culture in late seventeenth-century Muscovy

Conclusion : education, westernization, and secularization in early modern Russia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780875807294

0875807291

OCLC:

910981025