Turecké (islámské) téma jako součást úvah o historických kořenech a náboženské misi Moskvy v písemnictví moskevské Rusi druhé poloviny 15. a první poloviny 16. století
The Turkish (Islamic) Theme as a Part of Reflections on the Historical Roots and Religious Mission of Moscow in the Literature of Muscovite Rusʼ i n the Second Half of the 15th and the First Half of the 16th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of the article is to analyze the influence of the theme of the Otto man Empire and Islam on the rethinking of historical foundations and the formulatio n of ideas about the spiritual and religious mission of Moscow in the literature of northeastern Rusʼ from the mid-15th to the first decades of the 16th century. The study is based on a diverse base of sources, including genre- and thematically diverse manuscripts (prima rily historical stories and polemical treatises), representing the main spiritual trends and milestones of the cultural and political development of the ancient Russian state of this period. We pay attention both t o the domestic texts and to the works of authors who were cultural ly and linguistically of foreign origin but whose activities and literary heritage became part of the sp iritual world of Muscovite Rusʼ. The time frame of the study is determined, on the one hand, by the event s of the so-called Union of Florence in 1439 and the fateful event for the entire Christian world – th e fall of Constantinople (1453) under the onslaught of the Turks, which was widely refl ected in the literature of that time. At the end of the analyzed period, ideas about the special religious mis sion of Moscow are formulated, the historical roots of the Moscow state and t he origin of state (tsarist) power are intensively rethought.

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