The Tsar's happy occasion : ritual and dynasty in the weddings of Russia's rulers, 1495-1745 /

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Author / Creator:Martin, Russell, 1963- author.
Imprint:Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages) : ‡b illustrations.
Language:English
Series:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456928
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Varying Form of Title:Czar's happy occasion
ISBN:9781501754869
1501754866
9781501754852
1501754858
9781501754845
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2021).
Summary:"Using an array of archival sources, this book argues that royal weddings in early modern Russia reflected and shaped court politics in those centuries of dramatic cultural and dynastic change"--
Other form:Print version: Martin, Russell, 1963- The Tsar's happy occasion Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501754845
Table of Contents:
  • "Time to attend to the wedding": origins and traditions
  • "A canonical marriage for the uninterrupted succession to your royal dynasty": royal weddings and dynastic legitimacy
  • "And unlike previous royal weddings, there was no great assembly": continuity and change
  • "To live together in holy matrimony": orthodox and heterodox
  • "To serve without regard for place": kin and courtiers
  • "To see your royal children on the thrones": brides and gifts
  • "Delight in exposing the old methods of the country": transfigurations and parodies
  • "There will not be any direful reversions": heirs and successors.