Representing Muscovites in Early Modern Textual Cultures
A conference organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Literature Centre
On 31 October – 2 November 2024, the conference Representing Muscovites in Early Modern Textual Cultures organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences will be held in Prague.
Thursday, 31st October
9:00 – 9:20 Introduction, welcomes
9:20 – 10:20
Keynote lecture | Peter Sjökvist (Uppsala University), The Image of Russia in Early Modern Swedish Sources: Dissertations, Pamphlets, Poetry
10:20 – 10:40 coffee break
10:40 – 11:40
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail (Indiana University), Duchy of Moscow in the atlas Theatrvm orbis terrarvm by Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598)
Jakub Niedźwiedź (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), The 16th-century maps of Muscovy as polyphonic texts
11:40 – 12:40
Ovanes Akopyan (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), A new Germania? Tacitean Elements in Renaissance descriptions of Muscovy, c. 1525
László Jankovits (University of Pécs), Jacobus Piso on the Battle of Orsha: An early representation of the Muscovites
12:40 –14:30 lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Maria Chantry (University of Wrocław), Portraits of Moscow tyrants in Latin and Polish Renaissance poetry
Madis Maasing (University of Tartu), Russians, Turks, and Tatars in the rhetoric of 16th-century Livonia
Jüri Kivimäe (University of Toronto), Naming the Enemy: Balthasar Russow on Muscovites at war
16:00 – 16:30 coffee break
16: 30–17:30
Marcela Slavíková (Czech Academy of Sciences), Ne Moscis simus praeda cruenta: Aegidius Salius the Bohemian on the Muscovite threat to Europe (1570)
Grzegorz Franczak (University of Milan), “What Barbarous Savagery!” Albert Schlichting’s Misdeeds of the Grand Duke of Muscovy (1571) and the Polish-Lithuanian Anti-Muscovite propaganda in the time of Ivan the Terrible’s Opričnina
Friday 1st November
9:30 – 10:30
Viktors Dāboliņš (University of Latvia), Zacharias Stopius letter to Riga City Council on Stephen Bathory’s military campaign in Muscovy and takeover of Velikiye Luki (1580)
Gábor Petneházi (University of Innsbruck), The Perfect Enemy? Stephen Bathory’s Livonian Campaign and its reception in contemporary Neo-Latin literature in Transylvania
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Lucie Storchová (Czech Academy of Sciences), The Nearest Other? Representations of Muscovites in the Bohemian literature around 1600
Kristi Viiding (Estonian Academy of Sciences), Multifunctional Neighbours: Reflections on Russians in the Livonian Neo-Latin epic from the second half of the 16th century
12:00 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Andrzej Borkowski (University of Siedlce), Moscow and Muscovites in the works of Polish Baroque poetry: The case of Wacław Potocki
Piret Lotman (Estonian National Library), Are Muscovites Christians? Russian Orthodox believers in Ingria through the eyes of the Lutheran clergy in the 17th century
15:00 – 15:30 coffee break
15:30 – 16:30
Aivar Põldvee (Tallinn University), Depiction of the Great Northern War in the lament of sacristan Käsu Hans in Estonian
Kaarel Vanamölder (Estonian Academy of Sciences), Otto Fabian von Wrangell: Estonian nobleman and chronicler who met both Peter I and Charles XII
16:30 – 17:00 Conclusions
Organising Committee:
Lucie Storchová (storchova@flu.cas.cz, FLÚ AV ČR)
Kristi Viiding (kristi.viiding@gmail.com, UTKK)
Tomáš Havelka (havelka@flu.cas.cz, FLÚ AV ČR)