Word and Image in Russian History: Essays in Honor of Gary Marker

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2015

Word and Image in Russian History

Essays in Honor of Gary Marker

Edited by: Maria di Salvo , Daniel H. Kaiser and Valerie A. Kivelson
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618117090

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Word and Image invokes and honors the scholarly contributions of Gary Marker. Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the United States examine some of the main themes of Marker’s scholarship on Russia—literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia. A biography of Marker, a survey of his scholarship, and a list of his publications complete the volume.

Contributors: Valerie Kivelson, Giovanna Brogi (University of Milan), Christine Ruane (University of Tulsa), Elena Smilianskaia (Moscow), Daniela Steila (University of Turin), Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University), Daniel H. Kaiser (Grinnell College), Maria di Salvo (University of Milan), Cynthia Whittaker (City Univ. of New York), Simon Dixon (University of London), Evgenii Anisimov (St. Petersburg), Alexander Kamenskii (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), Olga Kosheleva (Moscow State University), Maksim Yaremenko (Kyiv), Patrick O'Meara (University of Durham), Roger Bartlett (London), Joseph Bradley (University of Tulsa), Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College)

Author / Editor information

Maria Di Salvo is Professor of Slavic Philology at Milan State University. She studied Slavic languages at the University of Florence, specializing in Russian and Polish, then at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She published essays and translations of Russian Formalist criticism (Ju. N. Tynjanov, Formalismo e storia letteraria, Torino, Einaudi 1973, B. Tomaševskij, Teoria della letteratura, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1978, P.G.Bogatyrev, Il teatro delle marionette, Brescia, Grafo edizioni, l980) the history of Russian and Polish linguistics (J. Baudouin de Courtenay, N. Trutskoi), then mainly on the eighteenth century in Russia (parts of Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, ed. by M. Colucci and R. Picchio, vol. I, Torino, UTET, 1997). She has been professor of Russian Literature at the universities of Genoa and Pisa, then of Slavic Philology at the universities of Pavia and Milan.

Reviews

Elise Wirtschafter, Professor of Russian History, Cal Poly Pomona:
"This invigorating collection is both a tribute to historian Gary Marker and a snapshot of the professional cohort that is his community. Ably and thoughtfully edited, Word and Image in Russian History builds upon acclaimed aspects of Marker’s research: the impact of print culture on society, representations of St. Catherine in relation to female rule, and the role of religion in the development of Petrine political discourse. Penned by an international assembly of scholars, and graced with biographical and historiographical essays devoted to Marker’s life and works, the Festschrift will delight contemporaries and remind later generations of a gifted predecessor."

Marcus C. Levitt, University of Southern California:
"This rich collection, featuring a distinguished cast of international scholars, celebrates the legacy of Gary Marker, outstanding historian of Russia and Russian culture. It includes twenty-one articles on a broad spectrum of topics inspired by Prof. Marker’s wideranging interests. Word and Image in Russian History illustrates and defines some of the most noteworthy issues occupying contemporary students of Russia. Its varied and engaging studies span the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries and encompass Russian legal and political discourse; the publication of travel and horticultural books; portraiture and art collecting; women in politics and business; literacy and education, religious and secular; conflicts among the Orthodox, Uniates, and Jews; civil society and politics. Nicely illustrated and including essays on Prof. Marker’s professional life and accomplishments, as well as a bibliography of his works, Word and Image reflects both Prof. Marker’s manifold accomplishments and demonstrates their continuing capacity to provoke and inspire."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Tabula Gratulatoria Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian Daniel H. Kaiser Open Access Download PDF	1
From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker’s Scholarly Contributions Valerie A. Kivelson Open Access Download PDF	17
Word
Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus’ Viktor Zhivov Open Access Download PDF	33
About Peter the Great’s Ship Predestinatsiia Maria Di Salvo Open Access Download PDF	43
Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community Christine Ruane Open Access Download PDF	55
Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities Elena Smilianskaia Open Access Download PDF	71
A Proletarian Encyclopédie Daniela Steila Open Access Download PDF	90
Image
The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? Daniel H. Kaiser Open Access Download PDF	118
Tracking the Travels of Adam Olearius Nancy S. Kollmann Open Access Download PDF	133
Catherine the Great and the Art of Collecting: Acquiring the Paintings that Founded the Hermitage Cynthia Hyla Whittaker Open Access Download PDF	147
Rozanov’s Peter Simon Dixon Open Access Download PDF	172
Gender
The Question of Women in Power in the Eighteenth Century E. V. Anisimov Open Access Download PDF	191
Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century Russian Provincial Towns Alexander Kamenskii Open Access Download PDF	206
Religion
Dialogue and Conflict in the Ostroh Principality: The Year 1636 Giovanna Brogi Bercoff Open Access Download PDF	222
Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis Robert Weinberg Open Access Download PDF	238
Forms of Literacy
Education and the East: The Omsk Asiatic School Janet M. Hartley Open Access Download PDF	253
What Should One Teach? A New Approach to Russian Childhood Education as Reflected in Manuscripts from the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century Ol’ga Kosheleva Open Access Download PDF	269
The Education of Parish Clergy in the Kyiv Eparchy in the 1770s Maksym Iaremenko Open Access Download PDF	296
Civil Society and Politics
Civil Society and Politics Patrick O’Meara Open Access Download PDF	315
The Imperial Russian Noble Elite and Westernization: The Family Eizen-fon- Shvartsenberg Roger Bartlett Open Access Download PDF	336
“Only the principle of public life and the full rights of citizenship”: The Russian Technical Society, the Public Sphere, and the Revolution of 1905 Joseph Bradley Open Access Download PDF	359
Publications of Gary Marker Daniel H. Kaiser Open Access Download PDF	382

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 416

eBook

Published: December 17, 2017
ISBN: 9781618117090