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

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Martin, Russell, 1963-
Additional Titles
Czar's happy occasion
Published
Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages) : ‡b illustrations
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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.
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"--
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ISBN
9781501754869 (electronic bk.)
1501754866 (electronic bk.)
9781501754852 (electronic bk.)
1501754858 (electronic bk.)
9781501754845 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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