title: Confessio vs natio. Byzantine theological tradition as hindrance in formation of ethnic and national identity discourses in medieval Rus’
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metadata.value: Dmitriev, Mikhail Vladimirovich
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metadata.value: 2022-11-15T11:12:51Z
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metadata.value: 2022-11-15T11:12:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Dmitriev M. M. Confessio vs natio. Byzantine theological tradition as hindrance in formation of ethnic and national identity discourses in medieval Rus’. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2022, vol. 1 (31), pp. 83–104.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2022.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38580
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metadata.value: This article attempts to verify some aspects of the research hypothesis which implies that
  normative orientations of the Byzanine orthodox theological thought (in ideologies, mentalities, discourses)
  contained traditions and constructions that were in odds with tendency to see communities of ethnic type
  in people whom we used to qualify as Russians and Ruthenians. In the East European Orthodox medieval
  Christian identity of groups included in the Church was thought of as a hindrance in forming discourses, which
  would claim that the Church community could be fragmented into ethnic and «national» groups (nationes).
  Old Russian texts, and texts of Muscovy, as well as writings of some Orthodox authors in Ruthenia (Ukraine
  and Belarus’) of the early 17th century have been taken in account. In these sources, very often, theological
  discourses were entering in conflict with tendency to transfer norms of ethnic (tribal) identity on the Christian
  communities. This generated a situation when «Russianness» was not perceived in ethnic terms, and in this
  respect relationships between Christian and «ethnic» were understood in a very different way, than in the
  theological culture of medieval West. Search for an explanation leads to the area of the Byzantine theological
  tradition, in which Christian and ethnic identities were regarded as two conflicting discourses. The Orthodox
  identity of emperor’s subjects was understood as «effacing» traces of tribal (ethnic) belonging. For subjects
  of Christian history (id est history of those, who got baptized) were regarded not the multiple nationes, but
  «new people» who became a united «nation of God». In medieval Rus, this discursive ligic was expressed
  by «Tale of the bygone years»; the same discursive «scenario» seems to be implemented in other texts of
  Russian Middle Ages, and this lead to Orthodox culture of Muscovy, which repelled the ethnic definition of
  «Russianness». It is very likely, that the same tendency was alive — disappearing and reappearing — in the
  worldview of literati and broader circles of the Orthodox population of Ruthenian lands.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 31; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byzantine theology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: confession
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnicity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: old-Russian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ukrainian-Belorussian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ruthenian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medieval studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Confessio vs natio. Byzantine theological tradition as hindrance in formation of ethnic and national identity discourses in medieval Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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