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The Kozaky Re-enactors Handbook: A guide to recreating a mid-seventeenth century Ukrainian Kozak (Cossack) character
This is a really unique book that gives the reader the most complete guide to developing a Ukrainian Kozaky character for reenactment, living history, role-playing, and wargames There is section giving rules and safety for the increasingly popular sport of live blade dueling and battles for mid-seventeenth century Eastern Europe. Other areas covered in this painstakingly researched booklet include just about every facet of Kozak costume, life, history, faith, food, drink, and more. There are glossaries, and even a section on wargames. If you have any interest in the beginnings of the Ukrainian State, real heroes, or just want to immerse yourself in a different and heroic culture this is a great read..
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Russian Church Singing: History from the Origins to the Mid-Seventeenth Century (Russian Church Singing)
The history of church singing in Russia constitutes an essential aspect of that nation's culture and musical history. For the first 650 years, from the Christianization of Rus' in the year 988, liturgical chant was the only documentable art music in that vast territory that eventually became the modern nations of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Indeed in Russia before the revolution in 1917, "liturgical musicology" was a bona fide scholarly discipline, taught in conservatories, universities, and theological seminaries. All activity in the field came to a halt, however, during the 75-year "Soviet era," when the study and practice of sacred music was severely repressed for ideological reasons, with a resulting lack of published research and secondary material. Consequently, Russian and Western music historians, church musicians, and liturgical scholars (as well as ordinary church-goers), whose interest in Orthodox Christianity and its art has been increasing of late, have been deprived of reference works that would impart even a general knowledge of the history and development of liturgical singing in the Russian-Orthodox Church. The present volume, Russian Church Singing: Volume 2 is the second installment of Professor Johann von Gardner's monumental work to appear in English translation. The 396-page volume, translated and edited by Dr. Vladimir Morosan, considers the development and practice of liturgical chant in the Russian lands from a variety of aspects: its origins and the various cultural influences upon its formation; extent manuscripts; the evolution of the notation and the problematics of deciphering it into modern-day notes; the forces involved in its performance; its stylistic evolution from exclusively monadic forms to improvised and, eventually, notated polyphony; its earliest known composers and performing ensembles; its aesthetics in relation to liturgy, the language, and the various problems that arose over the centuries, resulting in the adoption of Westernized stylistic models around the year 1650, which marks the approximate end of the time period covered in this volume. Much of this information is made accessible for the first time to the English reader, and will be of interest both to the specialist and to the general reader, generating a healthy demand for further research and exploration into this fascinating and hitherto unknown field.I.All four books provide further insights into the life and thought of the Orthodox Church..
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Between Remembrance and Denial: The Fate of Jews in the Ways of the Polish Commonwealth During the Mid-Seventeenth Century As Shown in Contemporary Writings ... Research (East European Monographs)
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Women, the republic of letters, and the public sphere in the mid-seventeenth century.(Critical Essay): An article from: Criticism
This digital document is an article from Criticism, published by Wayne State University Press on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 8640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Women, the republic of letters, and the public sphere in the mid-seventeenth century.(Critical Essay) Author: David Norbrook Publication:Criticism (Refereed) Date: March 22, 2004 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Volume: 46 Issue: 2 Page: 223(18) Article Type: Critical Essay Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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