Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russian Relations in the Fourteenth Century
The history of Russia is often considered as if that immense country had always been an isolated 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 centre in Constantinople. After 1370, the religious and monastic revival in Byzantium and the weakening of Mongol power provided an orientation to the policies of the Orthodox church in Russia: towards supra-national unity, spiritual and artistic achievements, and political reconciliation between principalities.
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Contents
Introduction I
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Byzantine civilization in Russia
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The catastrophes of the thirteenth century
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The Mongols their Western neighbours and their
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The Metropolitanate of Kiev and all Russia
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ideological
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Byzantium the Southern Slavs
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Byzantium and Moscow 1 Byzantium and Moscow
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The Union of Krewo
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Metropolitan Cyprian and the strengthening of Byzantine connections
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dreams and reality
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Some translated sources
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Emperor John VI Cantacuzenos restores the unity of the metropolitanate of Kiev and all Russia August 1347
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Patriarch Philotheos affirms his universal authority and supports Metropolitan Alexis as regent of Muscovy June 1370
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Enemies of Moscow excommunicated by patriarchate June 1370
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The threat of King Casimir of Poland 1370
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Olgerd and Moscow
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Patriarch Philotheos and Russia 136476
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Patriarch Philotheos
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Dynastic strife in the Golden Horde and the rise of Moscow
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The challenge of Poland and Lithuania
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Metropolitan Cyprian and Moscows separatism 137681 I Byzantium the Genoese and the Golden Horde
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Mityai Pimen and Cyprian
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The battle of Kulikovo
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Lithuania turns westwards 145 173 200
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Further instability in the metropolitanate
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The protest of Olgerd
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evenhandedness is a condition of unity 1371
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Cyprian and his monastic friends Letter I to St Sergius June 3 1378
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Letter 2 to St Sergius June 23 1378
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the Encomion of St Peter by Cyprian
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A Moscows separatism partially vindicated by Patriarch Neilos in 1380
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B Unity restored and Cyprian vindicated by Patriarch
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