Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J. : Translated with a Critical Introduction and Notes by Hugh F. Graham / Antonio Possevino ; translated, with critical introduction and notes by Hugh F. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Possevino, Antonio, author.

Contributor:

Graham, Hugh F., translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Russia.

Catholic Church--Apologetic works.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.

Summary:

This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J. , who was sent to negotiate a peace between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I A COMMENTARY ON MUSCOVY PRESENTED BY ANTONIO POSSEVINO TO POPE GREGORY XIII.

CHAPTER II Second Commentary on Affairs in Muscovy, With Special Reference to the Religious Situation

CHAPTER III The Public Discussions on Religion Held Between Antonio Possevino, S.J., and Ivan Yasil'evich, Grand Prince of Muscovy

CHAPTER IV The Chief Points on Which the Greeks and Muscovites Differ from the Latins in the Faith

CHAPTER V A Work Submitted by Antonio Possevino, S.J., to the Grand Prince of Muscovy After English Merchants had Given the Latter a Book in Which a Heretic had Tried to Prove That the Pope is Antichrist

CHAPTER VI An Account of the Sessions Held Between the Envoys of King Stefan of Poland and Ivan Vasil'evich, Grand Prince of Muscovy

NOTES TO THE CHAPTERS

Appendix.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8229-7735-4