04679nam 2200601 450 991081380480332120240114000020.09781644694183electronic book1644694182electronic book10.1515/9781644694183(MiAaPQ)EBC30166383(Au-PeEL)EBL30166383(CKB)24959556400041(DE-B1597)626642(DE-B1597)9781644694183(EXLCZ)992495955640004120240114d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRussian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725 Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign /Endre SashalmiFirst edition.Boston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (518 pages)Russian Thought in Context SeriesPrint version: Sashalmi, Endre Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725 Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press,c2022 Frontmatter --Contents --Preface and Acknowledgements --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 the 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 --IndexThe 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 at all in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated there. A comparison with Western Christendom frames the argument throughout the book.Russian titles for the specialist.FeofanArchbishop of Novgorod1681-1736InfluenceNation-building RussiaHistoryPolitical cultureRussiaHistoryPolitical scienceRussiaHistoryPower (Social sciences)RussiaRussiaHistoryPeter I, 1689-1725RussiaPolitics and governmentFeofan,Influence.Nation-building RussiaHistory.Political cultureHistory.Political scienceHistory.Power (Social sciences)947.05Sashalmi Endre1964-1722798MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813804803321Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-17254123490UNINA