Nancy Shields Kollmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1041800 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nancy Shields Kollmann |
| NOMBRES | Nancy Shields |
| APELLIDO | Kollmann |
| FIRMA | KOLLMANN N S |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-2462-8228 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Adventus and Entry? Symbolic Communication Between Ruler and Ruled in Sixteenth-Century Russia
This article explores how relations between the Muscovite ruler and his subjects were envisioned in political theory by exploring visual representations of such encounters in the Illuminated Chronicle of the mid-sixteenth century. In contrast to the Byzantine adventus and medieval and early modern European royal entries, where rulers met with representatives of social and political groups, in these images Russian rulers were surrounded by anonymo…
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars
Journal Article From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768–1870, by Alexander M. Martin Get access From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768–1870, by Alexander M. Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. 416. £98). Nancy S Kollmann Nancy S Kollmann Stanford University, CA, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Robert O. Crummey
Torture in the Hoover Library
This article explores a rare copy of the travel account of Johann-Georg Korb, secretary to the Habsburg envoy to Moscow in 1698–1699, held by the Hoover Institution Library. When the book was published in Vienna in 1700, Peter I demanded that it be banned and today it is a bibliographical rarity. The article focuses on one of the book’s almost 20 illustrations that depicts torture and executions of rebellious musketeers, putting the image in the …
A Unitary State of Difference?”
Based on an abstract theory of geopolitics, LeDonne’s Forging a Unitary State presents a problematic and insupportable interpretation of early modern Russian history and empire
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
While early modern Russianists will be well served by this book, there is also much of interest here for a wider readership. Maria Salomon Arel surveys the Muscovy Company’s trade in Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century, overturning long-standing preconceptions and discovering myriad connections to early modern global trade. It has traditionally been held that the Muscovy Company flourished from the 1550s into the 1580s, but lost o…
A Muscovite Republic
A response to Oleg Khakhorin's stimulating application of Anthony Kadellis' "The Byzantine Republic" to Russian history, this article explores the fundamental features of Muscovite political culture
The Complexity of History
This article finds Steven Pinker’s argument for a decline of violence too Eurocentric and generalizing to fit all cases. Study of the early modern Russian criminal law, and society in general, shows that different states can develop radically different approaches to violence when influenced by some of the same factors (in this case Enlightenment values). The centralized Muscovite autocracy in many ways relied less on official violence and exerted…
Land, People, and Global Context
This chapter explores the climate and geography of the lands that became the Russian empire, focusing on successive vegetation zones from the tundra and taiga of the north towards the more fertile mixed forest and forested zone to the steppe moving south. It explores the effect of the early modern Little Ice Age across Europe and Eurasia and surveys the spread of epidemics (plague, smallpox). It surveys Russian population and urbanization in comp…
Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
This chapter continues Chapter 7’s theme of the state’s wielding empire-wide power. Forcible population movement continued, mapping of the realm intensified, and regular censuses of the taxpaying population were instituted. Communications improved, with the coach system integrated into a new mail system. Canals, particularly serving St. Petersburg, were also improved, as were military provisioning, grain reserves for major cities, and public heal…
The Russian Empire 1450-1801
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference," that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to use vi…
Representing Legitimacy in Early Modern Russia
The article explores the ways in which the sixteenth‐century Illuminated Chronicle ( Litsevoi letopisnyi svod ) demonstrates the ideology of state legitimacy through its illustrations. Analyzing images of judicial punishment, it explores how artists worked within iconographic conventions to demonstrate a consistent image of legitimate, and illegitimate, uses of coercive power, using such devices as gesture, pose, regalia, and composition. As one …
In Memoriam
An obituary for Edward L. Keenan, a professor of history at the Harvard University, Massachusetts, is presented
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context …
Etiquette for Peter'stime
By Honor Bound
presents an ambitious and revisionist analysis of the relationship of state and society in Muscovy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which significantly advances our understanding of early modern Russian history.Kollmann shares a growing consensus that while Muscovite autocratic theory claimed a monopoly of power, in practice geography, scant resources, and poor communications inhibited the state, as elsewhere in Europe, from exerci…
The Extremes of Patriarchy
Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704
Pilgrimage, Procession, and Symbolic Space in Sixteenth-Century Russian Politics
The Formation of Muscovy, 1304-1613
The Grand Prince in Muscovite Politics
Kinship and politics
Letopisanie severo-Vostochnoi Rusi kontsa XIII-Nachala XV veka
Ritual and Social Drama at the Muscovite Court
Some of the few moments of comic relief to be found in Muscovite historical texts are provided in Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin's description of the Muscovite government. Kotoshikhin was an undersecretary (pod'iachii) of the Foreign Affairs Bureau (Posol'skii prikaz) who defected to Sweden and in 1666-1667 wrote an account of Muscovy's court and administration. He is the source of the dubious assertion that the tsar's daughters (tsarevny) were n…
Consensus Politics
The political conflict of the 1490s at the Muscovite court has generated numerous interpretations; inherent in each is a particular understanding of Kremlin politics. Despite the high stature and meticulous research of the scholars who have addressed the problem, their attempts to ascertain what the crisis consisted of, and who gained and lost what from it, have not been convincing. The interpretation that follows derives from my conviction that …
The Russian Empire 1450-1801
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference," that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to use vi…
Ritual and Social Drama at the Muscovite Court
Some of the few moments of comic relief to be found in Muscovite historical texts are provided in Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin's description of the Muscovite government. Kotoshikhin was an undersecretary (pod'iachii) of the Foreign Affairs Bureau (Posol'skii prikaz) who defected to Sweden and in 1666-1667 wrote an account of Muscovy's court and administration. He is the source of the dubious assertion that the tsar's daughters (tsarevny) were n…
Consensus Politics
The political conflict of the 1490s at the Muscovite court has generated numerous interpretations; inherent in each is a particular understanding of Kremlin politics. Despite the high stature and meticulous research of the scholars who have addressed the problem, their attempts to ascertain what the crisis consisted of, and who gained and lost what from it, have not been convincing. The interpretation that follows derives from my conviction that …
The Seclusion of Elite Muscovite Women
Letopisanie severo-Vostochnoi Rusi kontsa XIII-Nachala XV veka
Ritual and Social Drama at the Muscovite Court
Some of the few moments of comic relief to be found in Muscovite historical texts are provided in Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin's description of the Muscovite government. Kotoshikhin was an undersecretary (pod'iachii) of the Foreign Affairs Bureau (Posol'skii prikaz) who defected to Sweden and in 1666-1667 wrote an account of Muscovy's court and administration. He is the source of the dubious assertion that the tsar's daughters (tsarevny) were n…
Consensus Politics
The political conflict of the 1490s at the Muscovite court has generated numerous interpretations; inherent in each is a particular understanding of Kremlin politics. Despite the high stature and meticulous research of the scholars who have addressed the problem, their attempts to ascertain what the crisis consisted of, and who gained and lost what from it, have not been convincing. The interpretation that follows derives from my conviction that …
The Grand Prince in Muscovite Politics
Kinship and politics
The Formation of Muscovy, 1304-1613
Pilgrimage, Procession, and Symbolic Space in Sixteenth-Century Russian Politics
Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704
The Extremes of Patriarchy
By Honor Bound
presents an ambitious and revisionist analysis of the relationship of state and society in Muscovy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which significantly advances our understanding of early modern Russian history.Kollmann shares a growing consensus that while Muscovite autocratic theory claimed a monopoly of power, in practice geography, scant resources, and poor communications inhibited the state, as elsewhere in Europe, from exerci…
Etiquette for Peter'stime
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context …
In Memoriam
An obituary for Edward L. Keenan, a professor of history at the Harvard University, Massachusetts, is presented
Land, People, and Global Context
This chapter explores the climate and geography of the lands that became the Russian empire, focusing on successive vegetation zones from the tundra and taiga of the north towards the more fertile mixed forest and forested zone to the steppe moving south. It explores the effect of the early modern Little Ice Age across Europe and Eurasia and surveys the spread of epidemics (plague, smallpox). It surveys Russian population and urbanization in comp…
Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
This chapter continues Chapter 7’s theme of the state’s wielding empire-wide power. Forcible population movement continued, mapping of the realm intensified, and regular censuses of the taxpaying population were instituted. Communications improved, with the coach system integrated into a new mail system. Canals, particularly serving St. Petersburg, were also improved, as were military provisioning, grain reserves for major cities, and public heal…
The Russian Empire 1450-1801
The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys early modern Russia as an "empire of difference," that is, the government ruled the empire primarily by tolerating the great cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of its subject peoples. Over its many lands the Moscow center used a combination of coercion, cooptation and supranational ideology to maintain power, and the book explores each of those themes. The Moscow government did not hesitate to use vi…
Representing Legitimacy in Early Modern Russia
The article explores the ways in which the sixteenth‐century Illuminated Chronicle ( Litsevoi letopisnyi svod ) demonstrates the ideology of state legitimacy through its illustrations. Analyzing images of judicial punishment, it explores how artists worked within iconographic conventions to demonstrate a consistent image of legitimate, and illegitimate, uses of coercive power, using such devices as gesture, pose, regalia, and composition. As one …
The Complexity of History
This article finds Steven Pinker’s argument for a decline of violence too Eurocentric and generalizing to fit all cases. Study of the early modern Russian criminal law, and society in general, shows that different states can develop radically different approaches to violence when influenced by some of the same factors (in this case Enlightenment values). The centralized Muscovite autocracy in many ways relied less on official violence and exerted…
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
While early modern Russianists will be well served by this book, there is also much of interest here for a wider readership. Maria Salomon Arel surveys the Muscovy Company’s trade in Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century, overturning long-standing preconceptions and discovering myriad connections to early modern global trade. It has traditionally been held that the Muscovy Company flourished from the 1550s into the 1580s, but lost o…
A Muscovite Republic
A response to Oleg Khakhorin's stimulating application of Anthony Kadellis' "The Byzantine Republic" to Russian history, this article explores the fundamental features of Muscovite political culture
Torture in the Hoover Library
This article explores a rare copy of the travel account of Johann-Georg Korb, secretary to the Habsburg envoy to Moscow in 1698–1699, held by the Hoover Institution Library. When the book was published in Vienna in 1700, Peter I demanded that it be banned and today it is a bibliographical rarity. The article focuses on one of the book’s almost 20 illustrations that depicts torture and executions of rebellious musketeers, putting the image in the …
A Unitary State of Difference?”
Based on an abstract theory of geopolitics, LeDonne’s Forging a Unitary State presents a problematic and insupportable interpretation of early modern Russian history and empire
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars
Journal Article From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768–1870, by Alexander M. Martin Get access From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768–1870, by Alexander M. Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. 416. £98). Nancy S Kollmann Nancy S Kollmann Stanford University, CA, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Robert O. Crummey
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