God, Tsar, and People

Daniel Rowland taught in the History Department at the University of Kentucky from 1974 to 2012, and served as Director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities at UK. His books include Mannerism, Style and Mood and Architectures of Russian Identity, 1500-Present, (edited with James Cracraft.) He is a civic activist with a keen interest in historic preservation, and has sung in the Yale Whiffenpoofs and the Yale Russian Chorus, for which he served as assistant conductor.

• The Literature: Breaking the Code1. Kurbskii and the Historians2. Toward an Understanding of the Political Ideas in Ivan Timofeev's Vremennik3. The Problem of Advice in Muscovite Tales about the Time of Troubles4. Did Muscovite Literary Ideology Place Limits on the Power of the Tsar (1540s–1660s)?5. The Memory of Saint Sergius in Sixteenth-Century RussiaThe Visual: Investigating Art and Architecture6. Biblical Military Imagery in the Political Culture of Early Modern Russia: The Blessed Host of the Heavenly Tsar7. Moscow—The Third Rome or the New Israel?8. Architecture and Dynasty: Boris Godunov's Uses of Architecture, 1584–16069. Two Cultures, One Throne Room: Secular Courtiers and Orthodox Culture in the Golden Hall of the Moscow Kremlin10. Architecture, Image, and Ritual in the Throne Rooms of Muscovite Russia11. Advice, Advisers, and Courtiers: Decision-Making and Advice in the Royal Book Volume of the Illustrated Chronicle CompilationSumming Up: What Our Work Means12. Ivan the Terrible as a Carolingian Renaissance Prince13. Autocracy14. Muscovy15. God, Tsar, and People: Some Further Thoughts

Over his career Daniel Rowland has given us a complex, source-based, new paradigm of Muscovite political thought. Throughout these essays his basic humanity is on display, particularly in generous recognition of fellow scholars. But do not let these warm acknowledgments lull you into missing how original, how erudite, and how path-breaking his work is.(The Russian Review) Rowland's examination of sources as diverse as saint's lives, throne room frescos, icons, architecture and ritual is a tour de force(Kritika)