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 Italy under a precise copy of the Jesuit curriculum. When they created a school in Moscow; known as the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy; they emulated the structural characteristics; pedagogical methods; and program of studies of Jesuit prototypes. In this original work; Nikolaos A. Chrissidis analyzes the academy’s impact on Russian educational practice and situates it in the contexts of Russian-Greek cultural relations and increased contact between Russia and Western Europe in the seventeenth century. Chrissidis demonstrates that Greek academic and cultural influences on Russia in the second half of the seventeenth century were Western in character; though Orthodox in doctrinal terms. He also shows that Russian and Greek educational enterprises were part of the larger European pattern of Jesuit academic activities that impacted Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox educational establishments and curricular choices.An Academy at the Court of the Tsars is the first study of the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy in English and the only one based on primary sources in Russian; Church Slavonic; Greek; and Latin. It will interest scholars and students of early modern Russian and Greek history; of early modern European intellectual history and the history of science; of Jesuit education; and of Eastern Orthodox history and culture.
#1932710 in Books University of Utah Press 1999-11-12Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.36 x .78 x 6.30l; .90 #File Name: 0874806151182 pages
Review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Recommended for Native American Mormon History studies.By Midwest Book ReviewThe Trial Of Don Pedro Leon Lujan is an explication of data surrounding a controversial Indian slave trading case in 1851 in Utah. Sondra Jones presents a corrected picture of the issues of slave trading and Indian slave trade in the West; specifically the Four Corners area. The complexities underlying this historic trial are revealed in a vigorous review of documents and evidence relating to the trial. Findings are contradictory and contrary to cultural assumptions of the stereotypic corrupt Mexican slaver's guilt. Mormon tendencies to intrigue; slave trade involvement; and racial prejudice figure heavily in the sequence of events. To answer the question; Was this a fair trial and how would the history of Indian (and other) slavery have been different were it otherwise; read on. Much that is surprising in this history review will arise; causing a rethinking of some of the known racist tendencies of the dominant culture. This could not have been an easy book to write. This book will be of interest to Mormon history scholars as well as Native American and perhaps mesoamerican studies.Nancy Lorraine; Reviewer
