Medievalists.net » Moscow http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Riurikid Relationship with the Orthodox Christian Church in Kievan Rus http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-riurikid-relationship-with-the-orthodox-christian-church-in-kievan-rus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-riurikid-relationship-with-the-orthodox-christian-church-in-kievan-rus/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:03:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46146 Prior to the late tenth century, the princes of the Riurikid dynasty were rulers over the loose collection of pagan Slavic tribes and minor city states that were Kievan Rus. However, in a relatively short period, the dynasty had linked itself and its legitimacy to rule to the Orthodox Christian Church centered in Constantinople.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/the-riurikid-relationship-with-the-orthodox-christian-church-in-kievan-rus/feed/ 0 Ivan the Terrible: Centralization in Sixteenth Century Muscovy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/ivan-the-terrible-centralization-in-sixteenth-century-muscovy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/ivan-the-terrible-centralization-in-sixteenth-century-muscovy/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:53:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46131 From 1565-1572, the Oprichnina was a land within Muscovy of Ivanís choosing where he alone held sole power. The Zemschina was the remaining portion of Muscovy that was governed by the state administration.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/29/ivan-the-terrible-centralization-in-sixteenth-century-muscovy/feed/ 0 The Forgotten Text of Nikolai Golovin: New Light on the Igor Tale http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-forgotten-text-of-nikolai-golovin-new-light-on-the-igor-tale/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-forgotten-text-of-nikolai-golovin-new-light-on-the-igor-tale/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:01:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35686 Mann argues that a rare text of the Skazanie o Mamaevom poboishche comes from an early, fifteenth-century redaction that scholars could never locate—a redaction that is the prototype for all the redactions that have been studied heretofore. He maintains that unique parallels between this redaction and the Slovo o polka Igoreve support the hypothesis that the Igor Tale was an oral epic song in a tradition that actually continued into the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when oral tales about the Kulikovo Battle (1380) were composed. He places the new parallels in the context of other evidence for oral composition in the Igor Tale.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/14/the-forgotten-text-of-nikolai-golovin-new-light-on-the-igor-tale/feed/ 0 The Sovereign and His Counsellors : Ritualised Consultations in Muscovite Political Culture, 1350s-1570s http://www.medievalists.net/2008/09/25/the-sovereign-and-his-counsellors-ritualised-consultations-in-muscovite-political-culture-1350s-1570s/ http://www.medievalists.net/2008/09/25/the-sovereign-and-his-counsellors-ritualised-consultations-in-muscovite-political-culture-1350s-1570s/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:43:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=99 Muscovite understanding of how the autocratic ruler and his subjects should interact with each other was explicitly expressed in ritualised con- sultations between the sovereign and his counsellors. In my work, I endeavour to answer the question of how these consultations met the ide- ological needs of the autocracy and the requirements of the state adminis- tration.

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