Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. I. Introduction 1
5. Part One
6. II. The Relations Between Muscovy and the Kazan Khanate, 1438–1552 23
7. Part Two. Muscovite Legal Claims to the Kazan Khanate and Historical, Dynastic, and National Justifications for Its Conquest
8. III. Investiture of Khans with the Khanate of Kazan – a Legal Prerogative of the Muscovite Rulers 65
9. IV. The Kazan Yurt – a Votčina of the Muscovite Rulers 76
10. V. The Muscovite “Law of Conquest” and Kazan 88
11. VI. Historical and Dynastic Justifications for the Kazan Conquest 92
12. VII. The National Justification of the Conquest: Kazan – “A Russian Land” 104
13. Part Three
14. VIII. The Theory of Bulgar-Kazan Continuity: The Projection of Muscovite Political Ideas into Turkic and East European History 139
15. Part Four. The Struggle Between Two Worlds: Orthodox Christianity And Islam
16. IX. The Religious Struggle against the Kazanian Tatars: Comments, Projects and Exhortations 177
17. X. Prophecies, Predictions, Omens and Miracles 214
18. XI. The Liberation of Russian Christians from Muslim Captivity 232
19. XII. The Expansion of the Orthodox Christian Faith 251
20. XIII. The Martyrology of the Kazan Conquest 276
21. XIV. Conclusion 283
22. Illustrations 305
23. Appendices 321
24. Selected Bibliography 335
25. Index 349