Endre Sashalmi

Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725 (eBook, ePUB)

Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist Title

This 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 sources that shaped official perception of rulership, or marked certain changes of importance of this perception. Special emphasis is given to those written and visual sources that point towards depersonalization and secularization of rulership in Russia. A comparison with Western Christendom frames the argument throughout the book, both in terms of ideas and the practical aspects of state-building, allowing the reader to ponder Russia's differentia specifica.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644694190
• Artikelnr.: 63681305

Autorenporträt

Endre Sashalmi is a professor of History at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Pécs (Hungary), and is a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main fields of academic interest and research are comparisons of Western and Russian political thought and political iconography from the 15th to 18th centuries, as well as the issue of state formation in Russia and in early modern Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Explanation of Aims, Genre, and Terminology
PART ONE. Russia and Europe: Clarification of Terms and the Problem of the
State
1. Issues of Methodology, Reception, and the Benefits of a Long-Term
Approach
2. Territoriality, the Name, and the Nature of the Polity: From the
Principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire
3. The Idea of the State in Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and
the Early Modern Era
4. The Role of Metaphors and Allegorical Personifications in the
Development of the Concept of the State in Western Christendom
5. The Meaning(s) of European Perspective
6. The Birth and Meaning of the "Russian State Narrative"
7. The Consequences of the State Narrative: The Discovery of Gosudarstvo
by Russian History-Writing
8. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovite Perceptions of Ruling
Power: Characteristics and Methodological Aspects of a Comparison with
Western Christendom
9. The Problem of Samoderzhavie
PART TWO. Notions of Power and State in the Context of "Proprietary
Dynasticism": Russia and the Western Perspective
10. Richard Pipes's Patrimonial Interpretation of Russia Reconsidered in
the Light of "Proprietary Dynasticism"
11. Aspects of Rulership and Their Relation to Each Other in Early Modern
Europe and Russia: Proprietary, Office, and Divine Right
12. 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
13. Turning Points in the Life of Feofan Prokopovich, and His Most
Important Political Works
14. Preliminary Notes on Prokopovich's Theory of Law and State
15. Power, State, Law, Sovereignty, and Contractualism in Feofan
Prokopovich's Writings
16. 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