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- Title
'POLITICAL HESYCHASM' AND THE FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN STATE.
- Authors
LÉVY, ANTOINE
- Abstract
The expression 'political hesychasm' was coined by late Soviet historiography. It designates the contribution of the spiritual renewal initiated by Gregory Palamas to the dramatic rise of the Muscovite State between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The present paper argues that this influence runs much deeper than previously assumed. Behind what foreign visitors described as a species of oriental despotism, there is a brilliant translation of the hesychastic process of divinisation into political terms.
- Subjects
HESYCHASM; ORTHODOX Eastern mysticism; HISTORIOGRAPHY; ASCETICISM; DESPOTISM
- Publication
Analogia (2529-0967), 2018, Vol 5, p57
- ISSN
2529-0967
- Publication type
Article