Word and Image in Russian History (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Academic Studies Press, Brighton, 2015
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Hardcover. Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Markers scholarship on Russialiteracy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a survey of his scholarship, and a list of his publications complete the volume. Contributors: Valerie Kivelson, Giovanna Brogi (University of Milan), Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), Elena Smilianskaia (Moscow), Daniela Steila (University of Turin), Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University), Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College), Maria di Salvo (University of Milan), Cynthia Whittaker (City Univ. of New York), Simon Dixon (University of London), Evgenii Anisimov (St. Petersburg), Alexander Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), Olga Kosheleva (Moscow State University), Maksim Yaremenko (Kyiv), Patrick O'Meara (University of Durham), Roger Bartlett (London), Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College) Explores and honours the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the UK, Italy, Ukraine and the US examine some of the main themes of Marker's scholarship on Russia's literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Word and Image in Russian History (Hardcover)
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- Maria di Salvo
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- Academic Studies Press, Brighton
- Publication year
- 2015
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1618114581
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- 9781618114587
Contributors: Valerie Kivelson, Giovanna Brogi (University of Milan), Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), Elena Smilianskaia (Moscow), Daniela Steila (University of Turin), Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University), Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College), Maria di Salvo (University of Milan), Cynthia Whittaker (City Univ. of New York), Simon Dixon (University of London), Evgenii Anisimov (St. Petersburg), Alexander Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), Olga Kosheleva (Moscow State University), Maksim Yaremenko (Kyiv), Patrick O'Meara (University of Durham), Roger Bartlett (London), Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)
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About the Author
Daniel H. Kaiser is Professor of History Emeritus at Grinnell College. Kaiser studied Russian history at the University of Chicago, specializing in pre-Petrine Russia, especially its legal and social institutions. He is the author of The Growth of the Law in Medieval Russia (Princeton, 1980), and translator and editor of The Laws of Rus’: Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries; editor of The Workers’ Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View From Below (Cambridge, 1987); and with Gary J. Marker editor of Reinterpreting Russian History 860-1860s (Oxford, 1994). He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Kaiser was a visitor at Darwin College, Cambridge, and has held visiting appointments at UCLA and Nanjing University, China.
Valerie Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in Russian History from Stanford University in 1988. She is the author of Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell, 2013), and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia, (Cornell, 2006), and editor of Witchcraft Casebook: Magic in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, 15th-21st Centuries, Russian History/Histoire russe vol. 40, nos. 3-4 (2013) (guest editor) and Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, with Joan Neuberger, (Yale, 2008), and with Robert H. Greene, Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice (Penn State, 2003).
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