This collection of essays is offered with sincere gratitude and admiration to Donald Ostrowski, Instructor in Extension Studies at Harvard University and one of the most important scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and Eurasia in the last half century. This volume takes its name from the famous Latin phrase from Peter Abelard's 'Sic et Non': 'Dubitando enim ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus': 'By doubting, we come to question; by questioning, we perceive truth.' It is a fitting and succinct description of Ostrowski's long and significant career because it captures what he has always done best: questioning our understanding of the essential primary source materials of Ukrainian, Russian, and Eurasian history; doubting received and traditional historical interpretations; and writing works that have drawn us much closer to the truth about East Slavic history and culture.
The essays in the volume have been contributed by Ostrowski's many colleagues and students, and reflect his wide-ranging interests across a vast territorial and chronological space. Essays in this collection represent a variety of disciplinary approaches (history, language and literature, law, diplomacy, philology, and art history) and treat a range of issues as vast as Don's own interests. It is a collection that builds upon and sometimes challenges the works of previous historians (including earlier works of Ostrowski himself) by raising doubts and questions - something Ostrowski has done in his own career and welcomes when he sees it in others.
Author(s): Brian J. Boeck, Russel E. Martin, Daniel Rowland (eds.)
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Year: 2012
Language: English, Russian
Pages: LXII+504
City: Bloomington
Acknowledgments ix
Russell E. Martin / A Tribute to a Doubter and Questioner 1
Daniel Rowland / An Appreciation of Donald Ostrowski 5
Brian J. Boeck / Tribute to a Caterfly 9
Bibliography of Donald Ostrowski 11
Rus' and Eurasia
Christopher P. Atwood / Huns and Xiōngnú: New Thoughts on an Old Problem 27
Inés García de la Puente / Archaeological Finds of Camels in Pre‑Mongol Rus’: A Reassessment 53
Олексій Толочко / "Показующе им истинную веру": Летописное обрамление руско-византийского договора 911 г. 61
Susana Torres Prieto / "A Godly Regiment in the Heavens Came to Help Aleksandr...": The Sanctity of Heroic Princes in Kievan Rus' 67
Lawrence Langer / For Want of Coin: Some Remarks on the Mongol Tribute and the Problem of the Circulation of Silver 85
George G. Weickhardt / Legal Foundations of Novgorod-Hansa Trade in the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries 103
Bulat M. Rakhimzyanov / The Muslim Tatars of Muscovy and Lithuania: Some Introductory Remarks 117
Brian J. Boeck / The Don Interpolation: An Imagined Turning Point in Russian Relations with the Tatar World 129
Sean Pollock / "Thus We Shall Have Their Loyalty and They Our Favor": Diplomatic Hostage‑Taking ("amanatstvo") and Russian Empire in Caucasia 139
Rulers and Rulership
Elena N. Boeck / Believing is Seeing: Princess Spotting in St. Sophia of Kiev 167
Michael S. Flier / Envisioning the Ruler in Medieval Rus': The Iconography of Intercession and Architecture 181
Charles J. Halperin / Ruslan Skrynnikov on Ivan IV 193
Isolde Thyrêt / The "Tale of the Death of Vasilii Ivanovich" and the Evolution of the Muscovite Tsaritsa's Role in 16th-Century Russia 209
Russell E. Martin / Law, Succession, and the 18th‑Century Refounding of the Romanov Dynasty 225
The Church and Religious Belief and Custom
David Goldfrank / Adversus Haereticos Novgorodensos: Iosif Volotskii's Rhetorical Syllogisms 245
David B. Miller / A Venerable Elder: Varsunofii Iakimov of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery 275
Valerie Kivelson / Caught in the Act: An Illustration of Erotic Magic at Work 285
Nickolas Lupinin / Prayer: A Golden Galaxy of Virtue 301
Texts, Images, Contexts
William R. Veder / Glagolitic Books in Rus' 315
Francis Butler / The "Legend of Gorislava" (not "Rogned" or "Rogneda"): An Edition, Commentary, and Translation 335
Daniel Rowland / The Curious (and Happy) Story of an Important Source for Muscovite Cultural History: The Dormition Cathedral of the Mother of God Monastery in Sviiazhsk 353
Chester S. L. Dunning / An Overlooked Anglo‑Russian Tale of the Time of Troubles 369
Daniel H. Kaiser / The Sacrament of Confession in the Russian Empire: A Contribution to the Source Study of "Ispovednye rospisi" 383
Nancy Shields Kollmann / Pictures at an Execution: Johann Georg Korb's "Execution of the Strel’tsy" 399
Fred Spier / The Elusive Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo 409
Land, People, and Society in Muscovy
Ann Kleimola / "Ni pes ni vyzhlets ni gonchaia sobaka": Images of Dogs in Rus' 427
C. K. Woodworth / Muscovy as a Clan-Based State 443
Janet Martin / "Netstvo" and the Conditionality of "Pomest'e" Land Tenure 461
Carol B. Stevens / Anna Dorothea and the Major: Rape and Military Courts in Petrine Russia 475
John LeDonne / Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Land? 487
Contributors 503
