Ivan IV and Muscovy
Why did the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation and the Book of Degrees remain unfinished? -- Chronicles and government sources -- Ivan IV's Germans and the Oprichnina -- Ivan Peresvetov and Ivan IV's Muscovy -- Lay Elite Seals: who had them and when they used them -- Clergy in the documentary life of the Muscovite laity -- Who was entitled to sue for precedence? -- Fractious families and foreign slaves in Muscovite society -- Law and disorder: apolitical violence in Muscovy -- The Khan and the Elite: the Muscovite perception of the political culture of the Crimean Khanate -- Muscovite diplomacy toward Lithuania: mythology and logic -- Elizabeth I on Ivan IV's taste in women -- Ivan IV's coinage -- Pskov and the Pskov land -- Ivan IV and the russkaia zemlia -- Ivan the Terrible's temper, or: Ivan IV's terrible temper -- Was Ivan the Terrible charismatic? -- The documented Ivan the Terrible: an epistemological exercise -- Skrynnikov's Tsarstvo terrora and Reign of Terror.