Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15

A Review of JAN HENNINGS, RUSSIA AND COURTLY EUROPE: RITUAL AND THE CULTURE OF DIPLOMACY, 1648–1725. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, XII+297 pp. (New Studies in European History)

Ivan Kirpichnikov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
27-4 Lomonosovskiy Av., Moscow, Russia
ivkirs()mail.ru

Abstract: Jan Hennings’ Russia and Courtly Europe is devoted to the diplomatic culture of early modern Russia. Focusing on the symbolic language of the diplomatic ceremonial, the author offers new answers to the central questions of the Russian history of this period.

Keywords: early modern history, diplomacy, ceremonial, ritual, court society.

To cite: Kirpichnikov I., ‘A Review of Jan Hennings, Russia and Courtly Europe: Ritual and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1648–1725. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, XII+297 pp. (New Studies in European History)’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2019, no. 15, pp. 216–220.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8927-2019-15-15-216-220

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng015/kirpichnikov.pdf