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Russian notions of power and state in a European perspective, 1462-1725 : assessing the significance of Peter's reign /
"The book highlights the main features and trends of Russian "political" thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated. It concentrates on enigmatic authors and sourc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Russian thought in context
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE. Russia and Europe: clarification of terms, and the problem of the state
- Issues of methodology, reception, and the benefits of a long-term approach
- Territoriality, the name, and the nature of the polity: from the principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire
- The idea of the state in Western Christendom in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Era
- The role of metaphors and allegorical personifications in the development of the concept of the state in Western Christendom
- The meaning(s) of European perspective
- The birth and meaning of the "Russian state narrative"
- The consequences of the state narrative: the discovery of Gosudarstvo by Russian history-writing
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Muscovite perceptions of ruling power: characteristics and methodological aspects of a comparison with Western Christendom
- The problem of Samoderzhavie
- PART TWO. Notions of power and state in the context of "proprietary dynasticism": Russia and the Western perspective
- Richard Pipes's patrimonial interpretation of Russia reconsidered in the light of "proprietary dynasticism"
- Aspects of rulership and their relation to each other in early Modern Europe and Russia: proprietary, office, and divine right
- Divine right of kings and divine right of tsars: aspects and lessons of a comparison
- PART THREE. The origins of theory of law and state in the works of Feofan Prokopovich: an intellectual from the Kievan nest in the service of Peter the Great
- Turning points in the Life of Feofan Prokopovich, and his most important political works
- Preliminary notes on Prokopovich's theory of law and state
- Power, state, law, sovereignty, and contractualism in Feofan Prokopovich's Writings
- Female allegorical personification of Russia during the reign of Peter the Great and his successors: visual and written sources, and the notion of state
- Epilogue: the importance of Gosudarstvennost' in contemporary Russia
- Bibliography
- Index.