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Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Foundations and Mitred Royalty, 1589-1647

by Kevin M. Kain, David Goldfrank

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Academica Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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Focusing on one of Russia's most powerful and wide-reaching institutions in a period of shattering dynastic crisis and immense territorial and administrative expansion, this book addresses manifestations of religious thought, practice, and artifacts revealing the permeability of political boundaries and fluid transfers of ideas, texts, people, objects, and "sacred spaces" with the rest of the Christian world. The historical background to the establishment Russia's Patriarchate, its chief religious authority, in various eparchies from Late Antiquity sets the stage. "The Tale of the Establishment of the Patriarchate," crucial for legitimizing and promoting both this institution and close cooperation with the established tetrarchy of Eastern Orthodox patriarchs emerged in the 1620s. Their attitude remained mixed, however, with persisting unease concerning Russian pretensions to equality. Regarding the most crucial "other" for Christianity's self-identification, the contradictions inherent in Christianity's appropriation of the Old Testament became apparent in, for example, the realm's imperfectly enforced ban on resident Jews. The concept of ordained royalty emerged in the purported co-rulership of the initial Romanov Tsar Michael and his father, Patriarch Filaret. As a pertinent foil to Moscow's patriarchs, challenges arose from Petro Mohyla, a metropolitan of the then totally separate Kievan church, whose Academy became the most important educational institution for the Russian Orthodox Church into the eighteenth century, combining a Romanian regal, Polish aristocratic, and Ukrainian Orthodox self-identity.
Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Foundations and Mitred Royalty, 1589-1647 and Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Apogee and Finale, 1648-1721
Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Apogee and Finale, 1648-1721Russia's Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate: Foundations and Mitred Royalty, 1589-1647

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Academica Press

  • Published

    July 2020

  • Weight

    568g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781680539400

  • ISBN-10

    168053940X

  • Eden Code

    5671184

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