TY - JOUR
AU - Kivelson, Valerie A.
AB - Europe: Ancient and Medieval 625 of Montaillou can be seen stalking the whole country­ participation of a boyar council and of wise advisers. side of southern France. Ostrowski effectively recasts the Mongols' so-called "economic oppression" of Rus' as economic integra­ HENRY KAMEN tion into the lucrative trade routes protected by the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona Pax Mongolica. Part two of the book breaks new ground and reaches new heights. The contention that anti-Tatar rhetoric DONALD OSTROWSKI. Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross­ appeared in texts only after 1448 provides Ostrowski Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589. with a basis for reconsidering many long-disputed New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, questions of source analysis and dating. Moreover, his 329. $59.95. vision of two competing orientations-of the secular Donald Ostrowski's bold, wide-ranging, argumentative elite with a Qipchaq orientation and the ecclesiastical book examines the competing influences that shaped hierarchy with a Byzantine orientation-allows him to Muscovy in its formative centuries and how Muscovites reopen and develop Edward Keenan's intriguing "two reconciled, incorporated, or adapted those influences cultures" theory about the sharp divide between and made them their own. Identifying Mongol church and secular cultures. Ostrowski uses this 
TI - Donald Ostrowski. Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304–1589. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 329. $59.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/104.2.625
DA - 1999-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/donald-ostrowski-muscovy-and-the-mongols-cross-cultural-influences-on-r0ezyFSLRl
SP - 625
EP - 625
VL - 104
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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