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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Canadian Slavonic Papers
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795
Author: R. Butterwick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333993802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess the institution and idea of monarchy in one of Europe's largest and most neglected states. It will appeal to all those interested in early modern history.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333993802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess the institution and idea of monarchy in one of Europe's largest and most neglected states. It will appeal to all those interested in early modern history.
Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissar
Author: Tom Aitken
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556356595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissarexamines the Salvation Army's first attempt to establish itself in Russia during the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a stirring story of faith, determination and endurance of a would-be-law-abiding organization struggling (despite police raids, death by epidemic and other catastrophes) to work in a place where, prior to the revolutions of 1917, it did not officially exist.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556356595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Blood and Fire, Tsar and Commissarexamines the Salvation Army's first attempt to establish itself in Russia during the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a stirring story of faith, determination and endurance of a would-be-law-abiding organization struggling (despite police raids, death by epidemic and other catastrophes) to work in a place where, prior to the revolutions of 1917, it did not officially exist.
A New Companion to The Gothic
Author: David Punter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119062500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119062500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Kin, Gene, Community
Author: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845458362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors—anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists—highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845458362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Israel is the only country in the world that offers free fertility treatments to nearly any woman who requires medical assistance. It also has the world's highest per capita usage of in-vitro fertilization. Examining state policies and the application of reproductive technologies among Jewish Israelis, this volume explores the role of tradition and politics in the construction of families within local Jewish populations. The contributors—anthropologists, bioethicists, jurists, physicians and biologists—highlight the complexities surrounding these treatments and show how biological relatedness is being construed as a technology of power; how genetics is woven into the production of identities; how reproductive technologies enhance the policing of boundaries. Donor insemination, IVF and surrogacy, as well as abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and human embryonic stem cell research, are explored within local and global contexts to convey an informed perspective on the wider Jewish Israeli environment.
Cartographies of Tsardom
Author: Valerie Ann Kivelson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850
Author: Simon Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492576
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Explores a new approach to the history of writing, and a guide to writing in the history of Russia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492576
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Explores a new approach to the history of writing, and a guide to writing in the history of Russia.
Britannia & Muscovy
Author: Brian Allen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116780
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Accompanying an exhibition of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. The silver items - a large water pot with snake-shaped flagon shaped like a leopard, and more - exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116780
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Accompanying an exhibition of English silver in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, where sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. The silver items - a large water pot with snake-shaped flagon shaped like a leopard, and more - exemplify the developing ties between England and Russia.
Russia and Courtly Europe
Author: Jan Hennings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book explores diplomacy and ritual practice at a moment of new departures and change in both early modern Europe and Russia.
Nikolai Klyuev
Author: Michael Makin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Nikolai Klyuev is the first book in English to examine the life and work of this enigmatic poet. Klyuev (1884–1937) rose to prominence in the early twentieth century as the first of the so-called "new peasant poets" but later fell victim to Stalinist hostility to both his cultural ideology and his homosexuality. He was arrested and exiled in 1933, then shot in 1937. Klyuev’s work incorporates rich elements of folklore, mysticism, politics, and religion, and he sometimes invokes arcane Russian syntax and vocabulary. Makin’s feat is particularly notable because Klyuev was often elusive in his own accounts of his life, and Makin successfully brings into focus the poet’s deliberate strategies of self-mythologization. Nikolai Klyuev is an indispensable guide to the life and the work of an important poet winning wider recognition outside of Russia.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Nikolai Klyuev is the first book in English to examine the life and work of this enigmatic poet. Klyuev (1884–1937) rose to prominence in the early twentieth century as the first of the so-called "new peasant poets" but later fell victim to Stalinist hostility to both his cultural ideology and his homosexuality. He was arrested and exiled in 1933, then shot in 1937. Klyuev’s work incorporates rich elements of folklore, mysticism, politics, and religion, and he sometimes invokes arcane Russian syntax and vocabulary. Makin’s feat is particularly notable because Klyuev was often elusive in his own accounts of his life, and Makin successfully brings into focus the poet’s deliberate strategies of self-mythologization. Nikolai Klyuev is an indispensable guide to the life and the work of an important poet winning wider recognition outside of Russia.