Donald Ostrowski, Ostrowski Donald

Muscovy and the Mongols

Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304 1589

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the impact of the Mongols on the Rus lands using a broad and extensive source base.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521894104
• ISBN-10: 0521894107
• Artikelnr.: 21034689

Inhaltsangabe

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 political thought and Muscovy
10. Third Rome - delimiting the ruler's power and authority
11. The myth of the 'Tatar Yoke'
Addendum: types of cross-cultural influence
Glossary
Chronology
Works cited
Abbreviations
Sources
Studies.