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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Zitser, Ernest A.
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2004
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv75d7z5
Table of Contents:
  • The Naryshkin restoration
  • An unconsecrated company
  • Apostles and apostates
  • Unholy matrimony
  • Fathering the Fatherland