Valerie A Kivelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 255853 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Valerie A Kivelson |
| PRENOMES | Valerie A |
| SOBRENOME | Kivelson |
| ASSINATURA | KIVELSON V A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
Illustrations for Our Time
This article examines how the Black Death is represented visually in the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation ( Litsevoi letopisnyi svod ), a many-tomed account of the history of Russia compiled and lavishly illustrated at the court of Ivan the Terrible in the 1560s or 1570s. Illustrators and chroniclers depicted ordinary plague victims differently from those of high rank. Lofty individuals, like Grand Prince Semen Ivanovich and his sons, were shown…
Gregory Afinogenov. Spies and Scholars
Journal Article Gregory Afinogenov. Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power. Get access Gregory Afinogenov. Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 384. Cloth $47.00. Valerie A. Kivelson Valerie A. Kivelson University of Michigan, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850, by Simon Franklin
I gor F edyukin . The Enterprisers
The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia, Igor Fedyukin’s study of the creation of schools in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, functions at two complementary levels. The bulk of the work presents a straightforward description of the specific plans for creating or structuring schools or less formal educational nodes. Fedyukin investigates the individuals behind those plans, their positions within a complex ne…
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…
Expressive Gestures
During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Litsevoi letopisnyi svod , a massive illustrated chronicle of the history of the world and of Russia was produced in a single manuscript. Consisting of over 20,000 pages, with over 17,000 illustrations, the work should be a treasure trove for visually-minded scholarship. However, at first glance, the figures appear rigid and formulaic, offering little promise for interpretation. This article examines a s…
Russell E. Martin. A Bride for the Tsar
A handsome young tsar surveys a lineup of lovely young women and selects the most beautiful one, her piety and goodness evident in her bashful, downcast eyes. This fairytale image, a stock item in romantic depictions of early modern Russia, is the focus of Russell E. Martin's lively and insightful study. Martin has produced a book that is engrossing and fun to read, and through the lens of royal marriage he provides a clear picture of the way tha…
Witchcraft with a Novgorodian Flair? A Research Note
This article surveys the few witchcraft trials from the Novogrod region that survive in central archives of the Razriadnyi prikaz from the seventeenth century to determine whether or not there is some particular skew to the cases from that region. Although the number of cases is very small, they all show an uncommon willingness on the part of community members to accept benign, medical explanations for the use of roots and grasses instead of attr…
Unclean Spirits Unleashed
The spotty and dilapidated record of single trial of an alleged witch in the outskirts of Galich in 1636 serves as a window through which to view the workings of the highly stratified society, its interactions with local courts and central tsarist authorities, and, most importantly, the beliefs, fears, and interpersonal dynamics that drove low-ranking people to turn to the courts. Particularly valuable are the tangential references to common prac…
Introduction
This introduction briefly surveys the vast literature on the history of witchcraft in Europe and the far more limited historiography of Russian and East European witchcraft. It highlights a number of common themes emerging from the essays, including the interactions of religion and witchcraft beliefs, modes of persecution, the role of literacy and of gender, the mutability or stability of witchcraft belief over time, and the significance of ethni…
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 …
Picturing Russia
Between All Parts of the Universe’
In the early seventeenth century, learned Muscovites, as they set themselves to the task of working out a Russian and Orthodox vision of their place in the world, began to read, translate and modify the atlases produced by their slightly earlier European counterparts: Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu and others. The Russian solution to this geographical puzzle grew out of and reflected a sense of the tsardom's unique location and imperial ambitions. The…
"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 …
Culture and politics, or the curious absence of Muscovite state building in current American historical writing
Culture et politique, ou la curieuse absence de la construction de l’État moscovite dans l’historiographie américaine actuelle.En dépit d’une floraison de recherches et de publications américaines consacrées à l’histoire de la Moscovie, peu d’entre elles étudient la genèse de l’État moscovite avant 1550. Et si l’État demeure au centre des études américaines, l’accent est mis sur des périodes plus tardives ou sur des questions touchant davantage à…
Ivan the Terrible
Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia
A generation ago, alert historians jolted the field of witchcraft studies by calling attention to the fact that it was women in particular who burned on the pyres of the European witch trials. Amazingly enough, earlier historians had overlooked, or at least underplayed that particular skew in the record. Now the idea of witch-hunts as a “women's holocaust” is old hat, and in fact, has made one of those rare successful crossovers into popular cult…
"Muscovite "Citizenship
Cartography, autocracy and state powerlessness
Historians have focused much attention on the ways in which the rising monarchies of early modern Europe crushed or incorporated the peripheries of their territories into a uniform and unifying state system. Examination of nearly 500 Russian property‐litigation maps from the second half of the seventeenth century demonstrates that elimination of local power bases need not accompany state‐generated mapping programmes. On the contrary, a quite diff…
Muscovy and the Mongols
Preface Introduction: understanding Muscovy Part I. Mongol Influence: What's What and What's Not: 1. Setting the scene 2. Administration, political institutions and the military 3. Seclusion of women 4. Oriental despotism 5. Economic oppression Part II. Development of an Anti-Tatar Ideology in the Muscovite Church: 6. Defining ideology 7. Anti-Tatar interpolations in the Rus' chronicles 8. Fashioning the Khan into a Basileus 9. Byzantine politica…
The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place”
Autocracy in the Provinces
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…
Muscovy and the Mongols
Preface Introduction: understanding Muscovy Part I. Mongol Influence: What's What and What's Not: 1. Setting the scene 2. Administration, political institutions and the military 3. Seclusion of women 4. Oriental despotism 5. Economic oppression Part II. Development of an Anti-Tatar Ideology in the Muscovite Church: 6. Defining ideology 7. Anti-Tatar interpolations in the Rus' chronicles 8. Fashioning the Khan into a Basileus 9. Byzantine politica…
"Muscovite "Citizenship
The Effects of Partible Inheritance
In the eighteenth century, as political thinkers turned their attention to the pursuit of democracy and political equality, one of the central matters of interest to them was replacing the antiquated rules of primogeniture, which were seen to perpetuate privileged aristocracy, with the more just and democratic practice of equal partition. When Virginia abolished entails and primogeniture Thomas Jefferson praised the move for ending system that se…
Cartography, autocracy and state powerlessness
Historians have focused much attention on the ways in which the rising monarchies of early modern Europe crushed or incorporated the peripheries of their territories into a uniform and unifying state system. Examination of nearly 500 Russian property‐litigation maps from the second half of the seventeenth century demonstrates that elimination of local power bases need not accompany state‐generated mapping programmes. On the contrary, a quite diff…
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…
Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia
A generation ago, alert historians jolted the field of witchcraft studies by calling attention to the fact that it was women in particular who burned on the pyres of the European witch trials. Amazingly enough, earlier historians had overlooked, or at least underplayed that particular skew in the record. Now the idea of witch-hunts as a “women's holocaust” is old hat, and in fact, has made one of those rare successful crossovers into popular cult…
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 …
The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place”
Religion and Society in Russia
The Devil Stole His Mind
Journal Article The Devil Stole His Mind: The Tsar and the 1648 Moscow Uprising Get access Valerie A. Kivelson Valerie A. Kivelson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 98, Issue 3, June 1993, Pages 733–756, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/98.3.733 Published: 01 June 1993
Religion and Society in Russia
The Effects of Partible Inheritance
In the eighteenth century, as political thinkers turned their attention to the pursuit of democracy and political equality, one of the central matters of interest to them was replacing the antiquated rules of primogeniture, which were seen to perpetuate privileged aristocracy, with the more just and democratic practice of equal partition. When Virginia abolished entails and primogeniture Thomas Jefferson praised the move for ending system that se…
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…
Autocracy in the Provinces
Cartography, autocracy and state powerlessness
Historians have focused much attention on the ways in which the rising monarchies of early modern Europe crushed or incorporated the peripheries of their territories into a uniform and unifying state system. Examination of nearly 500 Russian property‐litigation maps from the second half of the seventeenth century demonstrates that elimination of local power bases need not accompany state‐generated mapping programmes. On the contrary, a quite diff…
Muscovy and the Mongols
Preface Introduction: understanding Muscovy Part I. Mongol Influence: What's What and What's Not: 1. Setting the scene 2. Administration, political institutions and the military 3. Seclusion of women 4. Oriental despotism 5. Economic oppression Part II. Development of an Anti-Tatar Ideology in the Muscovite Church: 6. Defining ideology 7. Anti-Tatar interpolations in the Rus' chronicles 8. Fashioning the Khan into a Basileus 9. Byzantine politica…
The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place”
"Muscovite "Citizenship
Male Witches and Gendered Categories in Seventeenth-Century Russia
A generation ago, alert historians jolted the field of witchcraft studies by calling attention to the fact that it was women in particular who burned on the pyres of the European witch trials. Amazingly enough, earlier historians had overlooked, or at least underplayed that particular skew in the record. Now the idea of witch-hunts as a “women's holocaust” is old hat, and in fact, has made one of those rare successful crossovers into popular cult…
Ivan the Terrible
Culture and politics, or the curious absence of Muscovite state building in current American historical writing
Culture et politique, ou la curieuse absence de la construction de l’État moscovite dans l’historiographie américaine actuelle.En dépit d’une floraison de recherches et de publications américaines consacrées à l’histoire de la Moscovie, peu d’entre elles étudient la genèse de l’État moscovite avant 1550. Et si l’État demeure au centre des études américaines, l’accent est mis sur des périodes plus tardives ou sur des questions touchant davantage à…
"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 …
Picturing Russia
Between All Parts of the Universe’
In the early seventeenth century, learned Muscovites, as they set themselves to the task of working out a Russian and Orthodox vision of their place in the world, began to read, translate and modify the atlases produced by their slightly earlier European counterparts: Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu and others. The Russian solution to this geographical puzzle grew out of and reflected a sense of the tsardom's unique location and imperial ambitions. The…
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 …
Witchcraft with a Novgorodian Flair? A Research Note
This article surveys the few witchcraft trials from the Novogrod region that survive in central archives of the Razriadnyi prikaz from the seventeenth century to determine whether or not there is some particular skew to the cases from that region. Although the number of cases is very small, they all show an uncommon willingness on the part of community members to accept benign, medical explanations for the use of roots and grasses instead of attr…
Unclean Spirits Unleashed
The spotty and dilapidated record of single trial of an alleged witch in the outskirts of Galich in 1636 serves as a window through which to view the workings of the highly stratified society, its interactions with local courts and central tsarist authorities, and, most importantly, the beliefs, fears, and interpersonal dynamics that drove low-ranking people to turn to the courts. Particularly valuable are the tangential references to common prac…
Introduction
This introduction briefly surveys the vast literature on the history of witchcraft in Europe and the far more limited historiography of Russian and East European witchcraft. It highlights a number of common themes emerging from the essays, including the interactions of religion and witchcraft beliefs, modes of persecution, the role of literacy and of gender, the mutability or stability of witchcraft belief over time, and the significance of ethni…
Russell E. Martin. A Bride for the Tsar
A handsome young tsar surveys a lineup of lovely young women and selects the most beautiful one, her piety and goodness evident in her bashful, downcast eyes. This fairytale image, a stock item in romantic depictions of early modern Russia, is the focus of Russell E. Martin's lively and insightful study. Martin has produced a book that is engrossing and fun to read, and through the lens of royal marriage he provides a clear picture of the way tha…
Expressive Gestures
During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Litsevoi letopisnyi svod , a massive illustrated chronicle of the history of the world and of Russia was produced in a single manuscript. Consisting of over 20,000 pages, with over 17,000 illustrations, the work should be a treasure trove for visually-minded scholarship. However, at first glance, the figures appear rigid and formulaic, offering little promise for interpretation. This article examines a s…
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850, by Simon Franklin
I gor F edyukin . The Enterprisers
The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia, Igor Fedyukin’s study of the creation of schools in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, functions at two complementary levels. The bulk of the work presents a straightforward description of the specific plans for creating or structuring schools or less formal educational nodes. Fedyukin investigates the individuals behind those plans, their positions within a complex ne…
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…
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