"Tsar and God" and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Uspenskiĭ, B. A. (Boris Andreevich)
Other Authors:	Zhivov, V. M., Levitt, Marcus C., 1954-, Budgen, D. (David), Bliss, Liv
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the Russian.
Published:	Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
Series:	Ars Rossika.
Subjects:	Semiotics > Russia > Religious aspects. Religion and culture > Russia. Language and culture > Russia. Orthodox Eastern Church > Russia > History. Russia > Religion > History. Russia > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Tsar and God : semiotic aspects of the sacralization of the monarch in Russia / B.A. Uspenskij and V.M. Zhivov. The sacralization of the monarch in the context of historical and cultural development ; The sacralization of the monarch as a semiotic process ; The civil cult of the monarch in the system of Baroque culture ; Conclusions ; Notes
Tsar and pretender : Samozvanchestvo or royal imposture in Russia as a cultural-historical phenomenon / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
Enthronement in the Russian and Byzantine traditions / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
Europe as a metaphor and metonymy (in relation to the history of Russia) / B.A. Uspenskij ; Notes
Cultural reforms in Peter's I's system of transformations / V.M. Zhivov. Cultural reforms and semiotic propaganda ; Innovations in church ritual ; The civil cult ; Parody and blasphemy as rituals of the public sphere ; Blasphemy in the paradigm of the new power ; Concluding remarks ; Notes
The myth of the state in the Age of Enlightenment and its destruction in late eighteenth-century Russia / V.M. Zhivov ; Notes.