Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia - The Transfer of Power 14501725

This revisionist history explores how the tsar's power was transferred in Russia over three centuries, as cultural practices and customs evolved.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Designation and heredity 1450-1533; 3. Benediction to election 1533-1598; 4. Election and heredity 1598-1645; 5. Succession and the new culture of the court 1645-1689; 6. Peter the Great and succession 1690-1719; 7. Peter's heirs and Feofan Prokopovich 1719-1725; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Paul Bushkovitch is Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History at Yale University where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Religion and Society in Russia: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992), Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power (2001) and A Concise History of Russia (2011). He is a Member of the American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of Cahiers du monde russe and Quaestio Rossica.

Zusammenfassung

This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, overturns generations of scholarship to argue that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Bushkovitch, Paul (Yale University Bushkovitch, Bushkovitch Paul
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781108749688
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74968-8
• Seiten: 413
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Political leaders & leadership, Political leaders and leadership, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards