The transfigured kingdom : sacred parody and charismatic authority at the court of Peter the Great /

The author suggests that by implicating Peter's "royal priesthood" in taboo-breaking, libertine ceremonies, the organizers of such "sacred parodies" inducted select members of the Russian political elite into a new system of distinctions between nobility and baseness, sacral...

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Autore principale: Zitser, Ernest A.
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004
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