An Academy at the Court of the Tsars : : Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia /

An Academy at the Court of the Tsars : : Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia / / Nikolaos Chrissidis.

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Ital...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Chrissidis, Nikolaos,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2016
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Of Grecophiles and Latinophiles
  • Chapter One Limning the Common wealth Of Greeks and Russians in the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter Two The Wandering Greeks From Italy to Russia
  • Chapter Three Establishing an Academy in Moscow
  • Chapter Four The Curriculum in Action I The Rhetoric Course
  • Chapter Five The Curriculum in Action II Investigating the Heavens
  • Chapter Six Rhetoric, Physics, and Court Culture in Late Seventeenth-Century Muscovy
  • Conclusion Education, Westernization, and Secularization in Early Modern Russia
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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