An academy at the court of the tsars Greek scholars and Jesuit education in early modern Russia / [electronic resource] :
Nikolaos Chrissidis.
- First edition.
- DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2015]
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.