Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski

Acknowledgments ix
Russell E. Martin / A Tribute to a Doubter and Questioner 1
Daniel Rowland / An Appreciation of Donald Ostrowski 5
Brian J. Boeck / Tribute to a Caterfly 9
Bibliography of Donald Ostrowski 11
Rus' and Eurasia
Christopher P. Atwood / Huns and Xiōngnú: New Thoughts on an Old Problem 27
Inés García de la Puente / Archaeological Finds of Camels in Pre‑Mongol Rus’: A Reassessment 53
Олексій Толочко / "Показующе им истинную веру": Летописное обрамление руско-византийского договора 911 г. 61
Susana Torres Prieto / "A Godly Regiment in the Heavens Came to Help Aleksandr...": The Sanctity of Heroic Princes in Kievan Rus' 67
Lawrence Langer / For Want of Coin: Some Remarks on the Mongol Tribute and the Problem of the Circulation of Silver 85
George G. Weickhardt / Legal Foundations of Novgorod-Hansa Trade in the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries 103
Bulat M. Rakhimzyanov / The Muslim Tatars of Muscovy and Lithuania: Some Introductory Remarks 117
Brian J. Boeck / The Don Interpolation: An Imagined Turning Point in Russian Relations with the Tatar World 129
Sean Pollock / "Thus We Shall Have Their Loyalty and They Our Favor": Diplomatic Hostage‑Taking ("amanatstvo") and Russian Empire in Caucasia 139
Rulers and Rulership
Elena N. Boeck / Believing is Seeing: Princess Spotting in St. Sophia of Kiev 167
Michael S. Flier / Envisioning the Ruler in Medieval Rus': The Iconography of Intercession and Architecture 181
Charles J. Halperin / Ruslan Skrynnikov on Ivan IV 193
Isolde Thyrêt / The "Tale of the Death of Vasilii Ivanovich" and the Evolution of the Muscovite Tsaritsa's Role in 16th-Century Russia 209
Russell E. Martin / Law, Succession, and the 18th‑Century Refounding of the Romanov Dynasty 225
The Church and Religious Belief and Custom
David Goldfrank / Adversus Haereticos Novgorodensos: Iosif Volotskii's Rhetorical Syllogisms 245
David B. Miller / A Venerable Elder: Varsunofii Iakimov of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery 275
Valerie Kivelson / Caught in the Act: An Illustration of Erotic Magic at Work 285
Nickolas Lupinin / Prayer: A Golden Galaxy of Virtue 301
Texts, Images, Contexts
William R. Veder / Glagolitic Books in Rus' 315
Francis Butler / The "Legend of Gorislava" (not "Rogned" or "Rogneda"): An Edition, Commentary, and Translation 335
Daniel Rowland / The Curious (and Happy) Story of an Important Source for Muscovite Cultural History: The Dormition Cathedral of the Mother of God Monastery in Sviiazhsk 353
Chester S. L. Dunning / An Overlooked Anglo‑Russian Tale of the Time of Troubles 369
Daniel H. Kaiser / The Sacrament of Confession in the Russian Empire: A Contribution to the Source Study of "Ispovednye rospisi" 383
Nancy Shields Kollmann / Pictures at an Execution: Johann Georg Korb's "Execution of the Strel’tsy" 399
Fred Spier / The Elusive Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo 409
Land, People, and Society in Muscovy
Ann Kleimola / "Ni pes ni vyzhlets ni gonchaia sobaka": Images of Dogs in Rus' 427
C. K. Woodworth / Muscovy as a Clan-Based State 443
Janet Martin / "Netstvo" and the Conditionality of "Pomest'e" Land Tenure 461
Carol B. Stevens / Anna Dorothea and the Major: Rape and Military Courts in Petrine Russia 475
John LeDonne / Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Land? 487
Contributors 503