Daniel Rowland

Emeritus Professor

Contact Information

Research Interests

Early modern Russia; art and architecture; Russian literature

Affiliations

History

Research

He spent 1981-82,1988-89 and 1995-96 at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. Current projects include an investigation of rituals, art, and architecture in the throne rooms of Russia.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

"The Problem of Advice in Muscovite Tales about the Time of Troubles," Russian History/Histoire Russe, 6, pt. 2 (1979)
"Towards an Understanding of the Political Ideas in Ivan Timofeyev's Vremennik," The Slavonic and East European Review 62 (1984)
"Did Muscovite Literary Ideology Place Limits on the Power of the Tsar?" The Russian Review 49 (1990)
"Biblical Military Imagery in the Political Culture of Early Modern Russia: The Blessed Host of the Heavenly Tsar," Medieval Russian Culture, vol. 2, Michael Flier and Rowland, eds. (1994)
“Ivan IV as a Carolingian Renaissance Prince,” Harvard Ulerainian Studies, 19 (1995)
“Moscow--the Third Rome or the New Israel?” The Russian Review, 55/4 (1996)

Numerous articles on early modern Russian History in the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.