An academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek scholars and Jesuit education in early modern Russia
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 c...
| Résumé: | 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 |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0875807291 |