An Academy at the Court of the Tsars. Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia /

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Ital...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chrissidis, Nikolaos (Author)
Corporate Authors:	hoopla digital, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	[United States] : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:	NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Subjects:	Electronic books. Livres numériques. e-books. EDUCATION / History. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. WEST EUROPEAN HISTORY SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY HISTORY Greek hieromonks Ioannikios Sophronios Leichoudes post-Renaissance Italy Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Acknowledgments
Introduction Of Grecophiles and Latinophiles
Chapter One Limning the Common wealth 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