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

Includes bibliographical references.

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 / Ines 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 Thyret -- 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.

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