Meyendorff, Byzantium and the Rise of Russia (1989)
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Abbreviation
Meyendorff, Byzantium and the Rise of Russia (1989)
Form of publication
Book

John Meyendorff, Byzantium and the Rise of Russia. A Study of Byzantino-Russians Relations in the Fourteenth Century (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2nd edition Crestwood, New York 1989)

ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 0-88141-079-9
First edition
Publisher of first edition
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication of first edition
Cambridge
Date of publication of first edition
1981
Data

The history of Russia is often considered as if that immense country had always been an isolate continent. However, at the time of its rise as a nation, it was politically a province of the Mongol Empire, whose capital was in Central Asia; and ecclesiastically, it was a dependency of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, or Byzantium. This book describes the role of Byzantine (predominantly ecclesiastical) diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow as the capital of Russia in the fourteenth century, and the cultural, religious and political ties which connected the Northern periphery of the Byzantine Orthodox “Commonwealth” with its center in Constantinople.

Contents: Abbreviations pp. ix-xvi. Acknowledgments p. xvii. Map pp. xx-xxi. Introduction pp. 1-8. 1. Byzantine civilization in Russia pp. 9-28. 2. The catastrophes of the thirteen century pp. 29-47. 3. The Mongols, their Western neighbours and their Russian subjects pp. 48-72. 4. The Metropolitanate of Kiev and all Russia pp. 73-95. 5. Victory of the Hesychasts in Byzantium: ideological and political consequences pp. 96-118. 6. Cultural ties: Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia pp. 119-144. 7. Byzantium and Moscow pp. 145-172. 8. Patriarch Philotheos and Russia (1364-76) pp. 173-199. 9. Metropolitan Cyprian and Moscow’s separatism (1376-81) pp. 200-225. 10. Lithuania turns westwards pp. 226-260. Conclusion: dreams and reality pp. 261-278. Appendices: Some translated sources pp. 279-310. Index pp. 311-326. Total pages 348.

Key words
Angeli / Angeloi, Byzantine dynasty.
Asia.
Balkans.
Black Sea / Euxine Pontus.
Bulgaria.
Byzantine art.
Byzantine diplomacy.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine sources.
Byzantium.
Church of Russia.
Clergy, clergymen.
Commerce.
Constantinople / Polis / Istanbul.
Crimea.
Cyril and Methodius, saints.
Demetrius Cydones / Demetrios Kydones.
Diplomacy.
Ecclesiastical history.
Empire of Nicaea.
Genovese.
Golden Horde.
Gregory Palamas, saint.
Hesychasm.
Holy Mountain / Mount Athos / Hagion Oros.
Holy Wisdom of God / Hagia Sophia.
Hungary, medieval.
Institutions.
Iznik / Nicaea.
John VI Cantacuzenus / Ioannes VI Kantakouzenos.
Kefe / Caffa / Kaffa / Feodosiia.
Khanate of Kipchak.
Kiev.
Late Byzantine period, Palaeologan / Palaiologan period.
Latin Church.
Lithuania.
Medieval era.
Medieval Russia.
Medieval Serbia.
Middle Byzantine period.
Monastic centers.
Mongols.
Moscovy.
Moscow.
Murat I / Murad I.
Nicephorus Gregoras / Nikephoros Gregoras.
Novgorod.
Orthodox Churches, organizations.
Orthodoxy.
Palaeologans / Palaiologans.
Patriarch of Constantinople.
Philotheos (Kokkinos), Ecumenical Patriarch.
Photios I, Ecumenical Patriarch.
Poland.
River.
Rus.
Russia.
Russians.
Saints.
Sarai.
Serbian rulers.
Sergius, saint.
Slavs.
Steppe.
Symeon the New Theologian.
Tatar-Mongols.
Turks.
Ukraine.
Venice.
Volga, river.