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Aron Gurevich was a towering figure of twentieth century medieval historical research. This extraordinarily rich and multifaceted volume presents provides a comprehensive introduction to this great scholar’s life and work. These thoughtful essays demonstrate not only the deep Russian roots of Aron Gurevich’s thought but how he developed his own independent vision of the past in dialogue with pre-revolutionary Russian forms of German Neo-Kantianism, the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, and the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin. Much more than a traditional Gedenkschrift, the editors have provided us with a first rate document in the intellectual history of twentieth century Russia and Europe.
Patrick Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, IAS, Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of History Ermeritus, UCLA
Contributors are Peter Burke, Andrew Cowell, Charles J. Halperin, Eve Levin, Eva Osterberg, Harbans Mukhia, Michael Richter, Svetlana Luchitskaya, Roger Markwick, Boris Stepanov, Thomas Izbicki, Jean Pierre Delville, Alexandra Korros, and Yelena Mazour-Matusevich.
Patrick Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, IAS, Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of History Ermeritus, UCLA
Contributors are Peter Burke, Andrew Cowell, Charles J. Halperin, Eve Levin, Eva Osterberg, Harbans Mukhia, Michael Richter, Svetlana Luchitskaya, Roger Markwick, Boris Stepanov, Thomas Izbicki, Jean Pierre Delville, Alexandra Korros, and Yelena Mazour-Matusevich.
Price: $246.00
Pages: 392
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Later Medieval Europe
Publication Date:
14 July 2010
ISBN: 9789004186507
Format: Hardcover
"This fine volume honors the memory of the great Russian medievalist Aron Gurevich in the most appropriate way: by offering essays that, in their intellectual rigor and lively historical imagination, respond to his model and inspiration. Some of the authors explore topics to which Gurevich himself made signal contributions: medieval Christianity and popular culture, the individual and society, Scandinavia and Muscovy. Others situate Gurevich in relation to major currents and concepts in social history and cultural studies, from the semiotics of Yuri Lotman to Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque and the histoire des mentalités of the Annales school. Framing these scholarly essays are a personal memoir by Gurevich’s cousin, Alexandra Korros, and a wide-ranging interview with Gurevich conducted by Yelena Mazour-Matusevich. Taken as a whole, these various contributions testify to the enduring influence of a scholar as noteworthy for his intellectual integrity as for his scholarly creativity and independence of mind."
Daniel Bornstein, Professor of History and Religious Studies and Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel Bornstein, Professor of History and Religious Studies and Stella K. Darrow Professor of Catholic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is a specialist in the late medieval-early modern European religious thought. She has published extensively on the late medieval theologian Jean Gerson and his legacy, including her book Le siècle d’or de la mystique française (Paris/Milan 2004) as well as on a variety of other subjects including a recent comparative study on Nietzsche and Bakhtin. She is President of the Jean Gerson's Society and a member of the advisory board for the Crosscurrents magazine, NY.
Alexandra S. Korros, Ph.D (1974) in History, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., is Professor of History at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. A specialist in late Imperial Russia, Korros has published extensively on the State Council of the Russian Empire, and political institutions in pre-revolutionary Russia including A Reluctant Parliament (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Alexandra S. Korros, Ph.D (1974) in History, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., is Professor of History at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. A specialist in late Imperial Russia, Korros has published extensively on the State Council of the Russian Empire, and political institutions in pre-revolutionary Russia including A Reluctant Parliament (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).