An Academy at the Court of the Tsars : Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia.
- 1st ed.
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- NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies .
- NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies .
Cover -- An Academy at the Court of the Tsars -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Of Grecophiles and Latinophiles -- CHAPTER ONE Limning the Commonwealth 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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