From the Vyzantism of K. Leont’ev to the Vyzantinism of I. I. Sokolov: The Byzantine Orthodox East as a Motif of Russian Orientalism
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15 juin 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.efa.9570
- isbn: 9782869582538
- eisbn: 9782869585300
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religion identité culturelle civilisation histoire culturelle péninsule balkanique historiographie byzantine History HIS010000 HBJDSujets proches
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Dimitrios Stamatopoulos, « From the Vyzantism of K. Leont’ev to the Vyzantinism of I. I. Sokolov: The Byzantine Orthodox East as a Motif of Russian Orientalism », École française d’Athènes, ID : 10.4000/books.efa.9570
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This article attempts to explore the manner in which Russian intellectuals, such as Konstantin Leont’ev and I. I. Sokolov (late 19th-early 20th century), ideologically managed the problem of the Byzantine past, participating in the development of a model of religious ecumenism which met with a considerable response among representatives of the Balkan intelligentsia. This model had a catalytic effect on the reorganization of relations between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Slavic world, through the adoption of a Pan-Orthodox perspective that drew its ideological legitimacy from appeals to the Byzantine imperial past, immediately following Patriarchate’s harsh confrontation with the supporters of the Bulgarian Exarchate. The discourse about an Orthodox East rested on invocations of an Orthodox oikoumene, preparing the political leadership of the Russophile circle in the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the early 20th century. The line separating the stable reference to Byzantium as a sublime cultural formation from its usage as a political metonymy for the legitimization of the tsarist monarchy, was very thin indeed, and for this reason all the more significant.