is not exactly a household name. One of the many artists educated in the unlikely school of the C... more is not exactly a household name. One of the many artists educated in the unlikely school of the Civil War battlefield, he lacks the fame of Frederick Stuart Church, Julian Scott, Alfred Waugh, or Winslow Homer. Today he is remembered as a semi-obscure nineteenth century illustrator specializing in "western scenes," a Civil War "special artist" of "modest artistic skills," and a somewhat eccentric "war buff." Biographical dictionaries do a little more than replicate his sole terse and error-ridden obituary. All we know about him comes from a terse and error ridden obituary in American Art Annual, a handful of letters, his own works, and an unpublished volume titled "James E. Taylor's Life Work in Art" that briefly came to light in the late 1970s. In 1979, Oliver Jensen of American Heritage received the "crumbling, dog-eared volume" from the Kennedy Galleries in New York. The gallery, acting on behalf of Taylor's grand-nephew, was offering it for sale. Jensen, who would soon leave American Heritage for the Library of Congress, passed on the offer, and the manuscripts went back to the Galleries. In his 1980 article, Jensen noted that "at the date writing his essay, the collection had not found a permanent home." Early Life.
This is the full layout of the Lincoln bi-centennial exhibit at the Huntington Library (2009). Th... more This is the full layout of the Lincoln bi-centennial exhibit at the Huntington Library (2009). The exhibit traces history of Lincoln collecting and evaluates the collectors' contribution to the studies of Abraham Lincoln.
This is a very long paper that needs to be cut in half. Any suggestions will be very much appreci... more This is a very long paper that needs to be cut in half. Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.
The essay is an attempt is a contextual reading of 1721 texts that defined the 1721 church reform, approached not as the founding charter of the Synodal church but rather legislation prompted by the developments of the preceding decades and conditioned by its language. The Dukhovnyi Reglament marked an important event in the history of conciliarism, even though its schema had no direct Western antecedents or analogies. That Feofan could with relative ease transition from the terminology of government kollegia to the lexis of collegium was not only due to his cleverness but also because both had the same provenance. Even though nowadays collective or collaborative governance is most readily associated with modern parliamentarianism and corporate teamwork, governance by unforced, good faith consensus was for centuries universally valued as the means to secure fairness and equity, reap the benefits of shared wisdom, and ward off the twin dangers of despotism and anarchy. Sanctified by Scripture, it was constitutive to the Christian monarch who was expected to govern surrounded by wise counsellors and advisors and heeding the voice of his people and essential to the church.
is not exactly a household name. One of the many artists educated in the unlikely school of the C... more is not exactly a household name. One of the many artists educated in the unlikely school of the Civil War battlefield, he lacks the fame of Frederick Stuart Church, Julian Scott, Alfred Waugh, or Winslow Homer. Today he is remembered as a semi-obscure nineteenth century illustrator specializing in "western scenes," a Civil War "special artist" of "modest artistic skills," and a somewhat eccentric "war buff." Biographical dictionaries do a little more than replicate his sole terse and error-ridden obituary. All we know about him comes from a terse and error ridden obituary in American Art Annual, a handful of letters, his own works, and an unpublished volume titled "James E. Taylor's Life Work in Art" that briefly came to light in the late 1970s. In 1979, Oliver Jensen of American Heritage received the "crumbling, dog-eared volume" from the Kennedy Galleries in New York. The gallery, acting on behalf of Taylor's grand-nephew, was offering it for sale. Jensen, who would soon leave American Heritage for the Library of Congress, passed on the offer, and the manuscripts went back to the Galleries. In his 1980 article, Jensen noted that "at the date writing his essay, the collection had not found a permanent home." Early Life.
This is the full layout of the Lincoln bi-centennial exhibit at the Huntington Library (2009). Th... more This is the full layout of the Lincoln bi-centennial exhibit at the Huntington Library (2009). The exhibit traces history of Lincoln collecting and evaluates the collectors' contribution to the studies of Abraham Lincoln.
This is a very long paper that needs to be cut in half. Any suggestions will be very much appreci... more This is a very long paper that needs to be cut in half. Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.
The essay is an attempt is a contextual reading of 1721 texts that defined the 1721 church reform, approached not as the founding charter of the Synodal church but rather legislation prompted by the developments of the preceding decades and conditioned by its language. The Dukhovnyi Reglament marked an important event in the history of conciliarism, even though its schema had no direct Western antecedents or analogies. That Feofan could with relative ease transition from the terminology of government kollegia to the lexis of collegium was not only due to his cleverness but also because both had the same provenance. Even though nowadays collective or collaborative governance is most readily associated with modern parliamentarianism and corporate teamwork, governance by unforced, good faith consensus was for centuries universally valued as the means to secure fairness and equity, reap the benefits of shared wisdom, and ward off the twin dangers of despotism and anarchy. Sanctified by Scripture, it was constitutive to the Christian monarch who was expected to govern surrounded by wise counsellors and advisors and heeding the voice of his people and essential to the church.
Paper presented at the 82nd Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association. Session “Fro... more Paper presented at the 82nd Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association. Session “Frontiers of Faith in Russia: Open or Closed: Catholicism, Protestantism, Old Belief and Orthodoxy in Russia In Search of a Community.” San Francisco, January 6, 2002.
Studies of eighteenth-century Orthodox clergy have long been affected by problems well familiar t... more Studies of eighteenth-century Orthodox clergy have long been affected by problems well familiar to all historians of the Church. As an essentially immutable and indivisible entity divinely ordained to preserve and transmit the eternal Tradition of Orthodox Christianity, the Church is naturally averse to any notions of variability and temporality and can be historicized primarily in its relation to the world and its pressures. This often results in a tendency to see the Russian Orthodox Church as a single force of continuity in an age of transition and change. Because the eighteenth century belongs to the imperial Russia, a discrete and largely unfortunate period in the history of the Orthodoxy bookended by the reigns of Peter the Great and Nicholas II, and characterized, above all, by the unholy marriage of the absolutist state and the Synodal Church, the eighteenth-century clergy is presumed to be an earlier version of the ecclesiastical estate (dukovnoe soslovie) of the later imperial Russia century – a single object of government policies and a more or less homogenous societal category delineated from secular society and presumably possessing of a shared identity.
Сборник статей «О вере и суевериях» посвящен юбилею доктора исторических наук, профессора Высшей ... more Сборник статей «О вере и суевериях» посвящен юбилею доктора исторических наук, профессора Высшей школы экономики Елены Борисовны Смилянской. В него вошли исследования различных аспектов народной духовной культуры: заговорной традиции, представлений о святых и демонах, старообрядчества, религиозного вольнодумства. Одновременно в книге представлены работы о правительственной политике в отношении старообрядцев и об осмыслении народной религиозности российской элитой Века Просвещения. Издание ориентировано на историков, этнографов, фольклористов.
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The essay is an attempt is a contextual reading of 1721 texts that defined the 1721 church reform, approached not as the founding charter of the Synodal church but rather legislation prompted by the developments of the preceding decades and conditioned by its language. The Dukhovnyi Reglament marked an important event in the history of conciliarism, even though its schema had no direct Western antecedents or analogies. That Feofan could with relative ease transition from the terminology of government kollegia to the lexis of collegium was not only due to his cleverness but also because both had the same provenance. Even though nowadays collective or collaborative governance is most readily associated with modern parliamentarianism and corporate teamwork, governance by unforced, good faith consensus was for centuries universally valued as the means to secure fairness and equity, reap the benefits of shared wisdom, and ward off the twin dangers of despotism and anarchy. Sanctified by Scripture, it was constitutive to the Christian monarch who was expected to govern surrounded by wise counsellors and advisors and heeding the voice of his people and essential to the church.
The essay is an attempt is a contextual reading of 1721 texts that defined the 1721 church reform, approached not as the founding charter of the Synodal church but rather legislation prompted by the developments of the preceding decades and conditioned by its language. The Dukhovnyi Reglament marked an important event in the history of conciliarism, even though its schema had no direct Western antecedents or analogies. That Feofan could with relative ease transition from the terminology of government kollegia to the lexis of collegium was not only due to his cleverness but also because both had the same provenance. Even though nowadays collective or collaborative governance is most readily associated with modern parliamentarianism and corporate teamwork, governance by unforced, good faith consensus was for centuries universally valued as the means to secure fairness and equity, reap the benefits of shared wisdom, and ward off the twin dangers of despotism and anarchy. Sanctified by Scripture, it was constitutive to the Christian monarch who was expected to govern surrounded by wise counsellors and advisors and heeding the voice of his people and essential to the church.