The history of Russia is often considered as if that immense
country had always been an isolated continent. However, at the time
of its rise as a nation, it was politically a province of the
Mongol Empire, whose capital was in Central Asia; and
ecclesiastically, it was a dependency of the Orthodox Patriarchate
of Constantinople, or Byzantium. This book describes the role of
Byzantine (predominantly ecclesiastical) diplomacy in the emergence
of Moscow as the capital of Russia in the fourteenth century, and
the cultural, religious and political ties which connected the
Northern periphery of the Byzantine Orthodox 'Commonwealth' with
its centre in Constantinople. After 1370, the religious and
monastic revival in Byzantium and the weakening of Mongol power
provided an orientation to the policies of the Orthodox church in
Russia: towards supra-national unity, spiritual and artistic
achievements, and political reconciliation between principalities.
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