Religion And Culture In Early Modern Russia And Ukraine

Author : Samuel H. Baron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0875802184

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Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine by Samuel H. Baron Pdf

A time of innovation, creativity, and social upheaval, the seventeenth century in Russia and Ukraine saw broad religious and cultural changes. Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine, these essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues, such as popular culture, mentality, and religiosity. Providing a fresh look at religion and culture during a pivotal era, this collection lays a foundation for comparing the cultural concerns of Moscovy and Ukraine with those of Western Europe after the Reformation. It will be an important resource for readers interested in the history of early modern Europe, Russia, and comparative religions.

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554438

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The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy Pdf

The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and large the Cossacks were Orthodox Christians, and quite early in their history they adopted a religious ideology in their struggle against those of other faiths. Their acceptance of the Muscovite protectorate in 1654 was also influenced by their religious ideas. In this pioneering study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicisim helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.

Author : James D. Tracy,Marguerite Ragnow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521828252

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Religion and the Early Modern State by James D. Tracy,Marguerite Ragnow Pdf

How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or 'acculturation', by which officials of state and church collaborated in ambitious programs of Protestant or Catholic reform, intended to change the religious consciousness and the behaviour of ordinary men and women. In the belief that specialists in one area of the globe can learn from the questions posed by colleagues working in the same period in other regions, this volume sets the topic in a wider framework. Thirteen essays, grouped in themes affording parallel views of England and Europe, Tsarist Russia, and Ming China, show a spectrum of possibilities for what early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life, and for how religious communities evolved in new directions, either in keeping with or in spite of official injunctions.

Author : Isolde Thyrêt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733398031

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Saint-Making in Early Modern Russia by Isolde Thyrêt Pdf

Based on a case study of the formation of the cult of the Russian saint Nil Stolobenskii in the seventeenth century, this book provides insight into the complex dynamics of the saint-making process in early modern Russia. Utilizing a large array of documentary, literary, and visual sources, the author investigates the importance of a growing patronage network for the cults of early Russian saints and the role that local laymen and monks and high-ranking Russian Orthodox church officials played in the development of the hagiographic, liturgical, and iconographic image of individual saints and in the creation of the physical infrastructure of their cults. Saint-Making in Early Modern Russia challenges the prevailing view that the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy determined the success of a saint's cult in the Muscovite period by demonstrating the crucial contribution of the leaders of the Nilov Hermitage to the development of Nil Stolobenskii's cult in the seventeenth century. By placing the achievements of these monastic figures within the wider theological, spiritual, and artistic framework of Eastern Orthodoxy that they operated in, this study affords the reader a rare view into the creativity of native Russian religious culture before the influx of Western ideas started to reshape the Russian Orthodox spiritual experience in the later seventeenth century. In light of its interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the topic, this book will appeal to historians, art historians, and experts in religious studies who are interested in the cult of saints in both Russia and the West.

Author : Peter Hagboldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:702368660

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Experimenting with First Year College German ... by Peter Hagboldt Pdf

Author : Margaret Ziolkowski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739101773

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Tale of Boiarynia Morozova by Margaret Ziolkowski Pdf

Margaret Ziolkowski's book comprises a thorough introduction to, skillful translation of, and erudite commentary on the four-hundred-year-old Tale of Boiarynia Morozova. The story of Feodosia Morozova, a member of the Russian aristocratic elite and a major participant in the Russian Othodox Schism, describes one of the most violent ruptures in religious history-the complete destabilization of the bastions of church and society in seventeenth-century Russia. In her explication of this famous text, Ziolkowski examines the hagiography of the Tale, the spiritual asceticism of Morozova in the context of Christian womens' struggles for independence, and the role this prominent female dissident has played as a symbol of resistance to corrupt authority. This work makes a significant contribution to the history of the Orthodox Church, pre-Petrine Russia, women in religion, and the study of medieval Russian literature.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg,Heather J. Coleman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253218506

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Sacred Stories by Mark D. Steinberg,Heather J. Coleman Pdf

Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec.

Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479349

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia by Paul Bushkovitch Pdf

This revisionist history explores how the tsar's power was transferred in Russia over three centuries, as cultural practices and customs evolved.

Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199578160

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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack Pdf

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.

Author : Nancy Kollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025134

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia by Nancy Kollmann Pdf

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

Author : B. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230000643

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State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia by B. Davies Pdf

State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia is a vivid reconstruction of life in one of the garrison towns built on Muscovy's southern steppe frontier in the early Seventeenth-century to defend against Tatar raids. It focuses on how the colonization process shaped power relations in a particular southern garrison community, both at the village level, within the land commune, and at the district level, between the general garrison community and the appointed officials representing state authority.

Author : Catherine Wanner
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019993763X

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State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine by Catherine Wanner Pdf

State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine is a collection of essays written by a broad cross-section of scholars from around the world that explores the myriad forms religious expression and religious practice took in Soviet society in conjunction with the Soviet government's commitment to secularization.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009160803

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Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789 by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Pdf

Thoroughly updated edition of a best-selling, acclaimed book, placing early modern European history in a global and environmental context.

Author : Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793634214

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Russia in the Early Modern World by Donald Ostrowski Pdf

A fundamental problem in studying early modern Russian history is determining Russia’s historical development in relationship to the rest of the world. The focus throughout this book is on the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period (1450–1800) and that those policies coincided with those of other successful contemporary Eurasian polities. The continuities occurred in the midst of constant change, but neither one nor the other, continuities or changes alone, can account for Russia’s success. Instead, Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II with their hub advisors managed to sustain a balance between the two. During the early modern period, these Russian rulers invited into the country foreign experts to facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how, mostly from Europe but also from Asia. In this respect, they were willing to look abroad for solutions to domestic problems. Russia looked westward for military weaponry and techniques at the same time it was expanding eastward into the Eurasian heartland. The ruling elite and by extension the entire ruling class worked in cooperation with the ruler to implement policies. The Church played an active role in supporting the government and in seeking to eliminate opposition to the government.

Author : Jarmo Kotilaine,Marshall Poe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134397426

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Modernizing Muscovy by Jarmo Kotilaine,Marshall Poe Pdf

First Published in 2004. Modernizing Muscovy is a comprehensive account of seventeenth-century Russian history. It rejects the traditional interpretation of this era as the twilight of the Russian Middle Ages. By revealing important instances of dynamic change in the late Muscovite state, economy, and society, the book demonstrates the crucial importance of pre-Petrine reform in Russia’s transition to one of the great powers of the world. The book’s broad scope makes it a veritable encyclopaedia of late Muscovite history. It both synthesizes previous scholarship and breaks new ground in many important areas.