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Středověk (jinak) trvá #12 Moskva jako třetí Řím a církev ve službách státu feat. Pavel Boček
| Title in English | The Middle Ages (differently) last #12 Moscow as the Third Rome and the Church in the Service of the State feat. Pavel Bocek |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | Although Rome and Moscow are separated by thousands of kilometres, in the 1620s the Pskov monk Philofeus wrote that Moscow was the "third Rome". Rome and Constantinople, the former epicentres of the Christian faith, had, in his view, departed from the true faith or were at that time under the domination of the Ottoman Turks. The new emerging Russian Tsardom was thus to be the last bastion of true, Orthodox Christians and the symbolic successor to the Roman Empire, which had been associated with the guarantee of Christian values from time immemorial. But who was the real head of Church and State? What did history eventually do with the letters of Philolaus? Is Moscow really the third Rome? And how does Pussy Riot relate to all this? The guest of archaeologist Jiří Macháček and art historian Ivan Foletti in the next installment of the podcast "The Middle Ages (Differently) Last" was this time a leading expert on the history of Eastern Europe and Russia, Associate Professor Pavel Boček from the History Department at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. |