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Ideia Vlasti i Politicheskaia Praktika: IX Mezhdunarodnyi Seminar Istoricheskikh Issledovanii
[ The Rome-Constantinopol legacy of Rus : The Idea of power and political practice: The 9th International seminar of historic studies]
Ed. A.N. Sakharov et al
Moscow: Institut Rossiiskoi istorii, 1995 355 p Serie: Ot Rima k Tret`emu Rimu pbk. Printing 300 ISBN: 5201005810 Language: Russian
This is a proceedings of the 9th International seminar of historical studies "From Rome to the Third Rome". The seminar, started in 1981 at the initiative of the Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza," studies political, cultural and religious issues of the three European centers of Orthodox religion: Rome, Constantinople, and Moscow. The ninth issue is focused on the idea of power and its political personification and practice: the relationship between civil and spiritual authorities; the process of the adaptation and transformation of Byzantine ideas of power and authority on Russian soil; the order of succession to the throne; perception of knightly power in Muscovy; symbols of state; coronation procedure; etc.