Valerie Kivelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1092928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Kivelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kivelson |
| SIGNATURE | KIVELSON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“According to their Faith”
A Muscovite bureaucratic graphosphere, where the administrative word became visible, took shape by the early sixteenth century. The existence of such a sphere cannot be taken for granted. Prior to 1200, Rusʹ princes relied little if at all on written texts as expressions of power or politics. Later rulers and their officials gradually incorporated documents into their administrative toolkit, eventually settling on the standardized form of the scr…
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
"Sovereign, Have Pity Upon Me!"
Gary Marker, Imperial Saint
Gary Marker’s fascinating study of the cult of St. Catherine and the construction of a basis of legitimacy for female rule in early modern Russia reads like a well-plotted detective story, one of those murky ones where the detective is called to solve a case where the murder implement, the body, and even the basic fact of the murder are missing, obscure, or subject to doubt. Marker’s evident delight in exposing the shifting, unstable foundations …
"Muscovite "Citizenship
Merciful Father, Impersonal State
Comparative analyses traditionally have done Russian history no favors. Invidious comparisons have situated Russia firmly in a context of backwardness relative to the West. The term 'medieval' customarily applies to Russia until the era of Peter the Great, that is, until the early eighteenth century, and even the least condemnatory scholars point out similarities between Muscovite Russia of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and early m…
Religion and Society in Russia
"Muscovite "Citizenship
Merciful Father, Impersonal State
Comparative analyses traditionally have done Russian history no favors. Invidious comparisons have situated Russia firmly in a context of backwardness relative to the West. The term 'medieval' customarily applies to Russia until the era of Peter the Great, that is, until the early eighteenth century, and even the least condemnatory scholars point out similarities between Muscovite Russia of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and early m…
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
Religion and Society in Russia
Religion and Society in Russia
Merciful Father, Impersonal State
Comparative analyses traditionally have done Russian history no favors. Invidious comparisons have situated Russia firmly in a context of backwardness relative to the West. The term 'medieval' customarily applies to Russia until the era of Peter the Great, that is, until the early eighteenth century, and even the least condemnatory scholars point out similarities between Muscovite Russia of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and early m…
"Muscovite "Citizenship
"Sovereign, Have Pity Upon Me!"
Gary Marker, Imperial Saint
Gary Marker’s fascinating study of the cult of St. Catherine and the construction of a basis of legitimacy for female rule in early modern Russia reads like a well-plotted detective story, one of those murky ones where the detective is called to solve a case where the murder implement, the body, and even the basic fact of the murder are missing, obscure, or subject to doubt. Marker’s evident delight in exposing the shifting, unstable foundations …
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism
Studies of witchcraft belief and persecution in Russia have been profoundly, and to a significant degree mistakenly, shaped by European understandings of witchcraft as fundamentally demonic and integrally linked to the power of the devil. Gary Morson and Caryl Emerson's concepts of "prosaics" and "semiotic totalitarianism," derived from their readings of M. M. Bakhtin, offer a productive way to set imported preconceptions aside and to comprehend …
In Memoriam
A leading scholar of Russian religious history and author of the path-breaking book Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, Robert chaired the history department for many years and was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague.He made important contributions to the history of popular religion, pilgrimage patterns, canonization policy, and the political deployment of sacred symbols.The oldest of three children, Robert was bo…
“According to their Faith”
A Muscovite bureaucratic graphosphere, where the administrative word became visible, took shape by the early sixteenth century. The existence of such a sphere cannot be taken for granted. Prior to 1200, Rusʹ princes relied little if at all on written texts as expressions of power or politics. Later rulers and their officials gradually incorporated documents into their administrative toolkit, eventually settling on the standardized form of the scr…
Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works)