Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Explanation of Aims, Genre, and Terminology 1
5. Part One: Russia and Europe: Clarification of Terms and the Problem of the State
6. 1. Issues of Methodology, Reception, and the Benefits of a Long-Term Approach 37
7. 2. Territoriality, the Name, and the Nature of the Polity: From the Principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire 61
8. 3. The Idea of the State in Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era 89
9. 4. The Role of Metaphors and Allegorical Personifications in the Development of the Concept of the State in Western Christendom 112
10. 5. The Meaning(s) of the European Perspective 138
11. 6. The Birth and Meaning of the “Russian State Narrative” 165
12. 7. The Consequences of the State Narrative: The Discovery of Gosudarstvo by Russian History-Writing 176
13. 8. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovite Perceptions of Ruling Power: Characteristics and Methodological Aspects of a Comparison with Western Christendom 188
14. 9. The Problem of Samoderzhavie 252
15. Part Two: Notions of Power and State in the Context of “Proprietary Dynasticism”: Russia and the Western Perspective
16. 10. Richard Pipes’s Patrimonial Interpretation of Russia Reconsidered in the Light of “Proprietary Dynasticism” 283
17. 11. Aspects of Rulership and Their Relation to Each Other in Early Modern Europe and Russia: Proprietary, Office, and Divine Right 299
18. 12. Divine Right of Kings and Divine Right of Tsars: Aspects and Lessons of a Comparison 340
19. Part Three: The Origins of Theory of Law and State in the Works of Feofan Prokopovich: An Intellectual from the Kievan Nest in the Service of Peter the Great
20. 13. Turning Points in the Life of Feofan Prokopovich, and His Most Important Political Works 365
21. 14. Preliminary Notes on Prokopovich’s Theory of Law and State 374
22. 15. Power, State, Law, Sovereignty, and Contractualism in Feofan Prokopovich’s Writings 385
23. 16. Female Allegorical Personification of Russia during the Reign of Peter the Great and His Successors: Visual and Written Sources, and the Notion of State 440
24. Epilogue: The Importance of Gosudarstvennost′ in Contemporary Russia 453
25. Bibliography 465
26. Index 497