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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Muscovy"”.
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Early Russian Censuses and the Population of Muscovy, 1550-1650
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… unknown number of masons, from Italy worked in Muscovy during these years, and their presence indelibly changed the face of Russian architecture and culture. The Muscovite princes sought to recreate the cityscape of Moscow as a symbol of the power gained when Ivan III freed his people from …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… writers which center on Kievan Rus', medieval Muscovy, and the period of imperial expansion. These texts are analyzed within several interrelated theoretical frameworks. In particular, the author's approach is informed by Benedict Anderson's theory of the nation as an ""imagined community"", …
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Valdžia ir erdvė: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teritorializacijos procesas XIV–XVI a /
… of the GDL with the Ruthenian principalities and Muscovy from in the 14th–16th centuries, what deals with the concept of principalities incorporation organized by Lithuanians and ambition of local nobility to preserve the “old” structure of territorial organization. The research concentrates and …
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Fields and Forests: A Stable Isotope Perspective on the Subsistence Strategies of Past Amazonian Peoples
… consumption amongst potentially domesticated muscovy duck (Cairina moschata). The combined stable isotope evidence from the Amazon shows that consumption of maize was more of a norm than an exception, providing a substantial dietary contribution even in the typical várzea context of Hatahara. …
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Tamga: a fiscal form in post-Mongol Moscow
This thesis traces the evolution of *tamga*, a form of trading taxation, across Mongol and post-Mongol Eurasia (from the thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries). *Tamga*, which had first denoted a stamp or seal, came to also signify a tax – charged primarily on exchange – that allowed the khans to …
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Marriage and Brotherhood in Muscovite Russia
In Russia today, conservative views about gender are often promoted through reference to the past, to show that supposedly ‘traditional’ gender roles are intrinsic to Russian history. Frequently, this idea is upheld in scholarship. My work explores the historicity of commonly held assumptions about …
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Objective gait analysis in humboldt penguins (spheniscus humboldti) and domestic ducks (cairina moschata domestica) using a pressure sensitive walkway
Lameness due to osteoarthritis and/or pododermatitis is one of the most common problems encountered with aquatic birds such as ducks and penguins under professional care. Successful treatment and management is variable and often incomplete or transient. There is a lack of a validated objective tool …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
In Muscovite Russia, political power was often articulated through the image of the ruler and his family. Ideologies of family were crucial to the cultural envisioning of dynastic legitimacy and social order. Beginning from the sixteenth century, under the cultural influence of the …