title: Ivan IV consults his elite subjects
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Halperin, Charles J.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:01:34Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:01:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Halperin Charles J. Ivan IV consults his elite subjects. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 69–76.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2016.406
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5924
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The relationship of the ruler to his advisors was a central issue of sixteenth-century Muscovite political
  theory. This article explores how narrative sources presented the ideal paradigm of the ruler consulting
  his subjects to Ivan in practice by analyzing passages containing forms of the verb sovetovati (to advise,
  to consult with) pertaining to Ivan. Such references did not occur uniformly throughout Ivan’s reign.
  Two brief clusters, a smaller one when Grand Princess Elena exercised authority, and a much denser
  one dealing with the eventual conquest of Kazan’, were each followed by periods of only erratic and
  scattered references. This disparity cannot be explained by any hostility during Ivan’s maturity on the
  part of the compilers of narrative accounts, because those narratives, although they did not regurgitate
  every earlier usage of the concept, did not rewrite the past consistently to erase previous references.
  This chronological disparity in references to consultation cannot be attributed to content. Overall the
  chronicles did not lack for opportunities to allude to consultation. Though foreign policy decisions
  dealing with Lithuania and Kazan’ dominate passages from narrative sources before 1554 that invoke
  consultation, Muscovite history still was not lacking in foreign policy resolved in a consultative
  manner between 1538 and 1549 or 1552 and 1567. Although it is tempting to see the apparent attrition
  of references to Ivan’s consultations with the elite after 1552 to Ivan’s growing ‘autocratic’ pretensions to
  rule without interference by his elite, such a line of reasoning cannot explain the comparable ‘decline’
  of references to consultation between 1538 and 1549. Therefore proposing a rational explanation for
  the pattern of allusions to Ivan’s consultation with the elite would be premature. Refs 19.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 2. History;Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ivan IV
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: annals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chronicles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: meetings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consultations etiquette
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elite
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Muscovy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ivan IV consults his elite subjects
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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