An Academy At The Court Of The Tsars: Greek Scholars And Jesuit Education In Early Modern Russia (Niu Series In Slavic, East European, And Eurasian Studies)

Introduction : of Grecophiles and Latinophiles : historiographical excursus -- Limning the commonwealth : of Greeks and Russians in the seventeenth century -- The wandering Greeks : from Italy to Russia -- Establishing an academy in Moscow -- The curriculum in Action I : the rhetoric course -- The curriculum in Action II : investigating the heavens -- Rhetoric, physics, and court culture in late seventeenth-century Muscovy -- Conclusion : education, westernization, and secularization in early modern Russia

• | Author: Nikolaos A. Chrissidis
• | Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0875807291
• | ISBN-13: 9780875807294