TY - BOOK AU - Poe,Marshall T. TI - A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476-1748 T2 - Studies in the Humanities Series SN - 9780801474705 AV - D34.R9 -- P64 2000eb U1 - 947 PY - 2001/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Public opinion -- Europe KW - Russia -- Foreign public opinion, European KW - Russia -- Relations -- Europe KW - Europe -- Relations -- Russia KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION The History of "Russian Tyranny -- CHAPTER I TERRA INCOGNITA The Earliest European Descriptions of Muscovy -- CHAPTER 2 LEGATUS AD MOSCOVIAM European Ambassadors and the Origin of "Russian Tyranny -- CHAPTER 3 NECESSARIUM MALUM European Residents and the Origin of "Russian Tyranny -- CHAPTER 4 RERUM MOSCOVITICARUM Herberstein and the Origin of "Russian Tyranny -- CHAPTER 5 TYRANNIS SINE TYRANNO Political Categories and the Origin of "Russian Tyranny" -- CHAPTER 6 SIMPLEX DOMINATUS Russian Government in European Political Science -- CHAPTER 7 WAS MUSCOVY A DESPOTISM? -- APPENDIX Folkloric Stories about Ivan IV in European Ethnographies, 1555-1700 -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- 1. Primary Sources: Foreign Accounts of Russia, 1476-1700 -- 2. Other Primary Sources -- 3. Secondary Sources -- 4. Secondary Sources on European Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z N2 - Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3137911 ER -