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Ernest A. Zitser - The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great - 9780801441479 - V9780801441479
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The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great

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Description for The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.

In this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture, Ernest A. Zitser provides a corrective to the secular bias of the scholarly literature about the reforms of Peter the Great. Zitser demonstrates that the tsar's supposedly "secularizing" reforms rested on a fundamentally religious conception of his personal political mission. In particular, Zitser shows that the carnivalesque (and often obscene) activities of the so-called Most Comical All-Drunken Council served as a type of Baroque political sacrament—a monarchical rite of power that elevated the tsar's person above normal men, guaranteed his prerogative over church affairs, and bound the ... Read more

Tracing the ways in which the tsar and his courtiers appropriated aspects of Muscovite and European traditions to suit their needs and aspirations, The Transfigured Kingdom offers one of the first discussions of the gendered nature of political power at the court of Russia's self-proclaimed "Father of the Fatherland" and reveals the role of symbolism, myth, and ritual in shaping political order in early modern Europe.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441479
SKU
V9780801441479
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About Ernest A. Zitser
Ernest Zitser is Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies at Duke University.

Reviews for The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great
Zitser argues that 'the Drunken Council was not an institution at all, parodic or otherwise; it was a discourse, that is, a way of speaking about royal authority that was constitutive of political relations as much as a reflection of the way power was distributed and organized at the court of Peter the Great.' It is this insight or thesis ... Read more

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