The Epiphany Ceremony of the Russian Court in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Bushkovitch, Paul

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“…Russia was thus the one kingdom with the true faith, chosen by God like the people of Israel. 56 All these rituals, symbols, and historical notions said nothing specific about the power of the tsar, and none touched on succession.…”

Section: Russian Ideas Of the Monarch And The State To 1700mentioning

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Bushkovitch

2021

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Succession to the throne was essential to the survival of the state in Russia as well as the rest of Europe in the early modern era, for all but a few states were monarchies. For all of these states, the practices of succession existed alongside conceptions about the rules of succession, a combination of custom and in some cases written law. Succession in Western EuropeEuropean historians have assumed that hereditary succession by primogeniture was the normal Western practice, laid down in the Middle Ages and by the early modern era, in most cases, no longer a contentious issue. The discussion of European absolutism has revolved around the relationships of kings to the various countries' elites and to institutions such as law courts and assemblies of estates. 1 Yet there obviously was also a relationship between royal power and succession practices.Hereditary monarchy was not universal. 2 The most important of Europe's elective monarchies was the Holy Roman Empire. Elections of the kings of the Romans and emperors went back deep into the Middle Ages, but in the early modern era the basis was the Golden Bull of 1356. The imperial system placed the election in the hands of seven electors, all prelates 1 Roland Mousnier, Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 2 vols. (Paris:Presses universitaires de France, 1974-80); Bernard Barbiche, Institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne, XVI e -XVIII e siècles (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2001);

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Section: Russian Ideas Of the Monarch And The State To 1700mentioning

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Bushkovitch

2021

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“…Spiritual connections to the environment are embedded in all major religions (de Groot et al ) and ice‐covered inland waters have a cultural value in religion (Magnuson and Lathrop ). Since the 16th century, Russian Orthodox Christians have celebrated Epiphany by immersing themselves into icy rivers and lakes (Bushkovitch ). Another example occurs in the U.S.A.…”

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Consequences of lake and river ice loss on cultural ecosystem services

Knoll

Sharma

Denfeld

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Limnol Oceanogr Letters

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Inland lake and river ice are underappreciated resources threatened by climate change. Over the past 150 years, seasonal ice cover duration on Northern Hemisphere lakes and rivers has been decreasing. Ice-cover loss affects ecosystem services in various ways, but comprehensive studies evaluating the interplay between society and ice-covered lakes and rivers are lacking. For the first time, we provide quantitative evidence of the diverse ways that the loss of inland ice may reduce cultural ecosystem services. AbstractPeople extensively use lakes and rivers covered by seasonal ice. Although ice cover duration has been declining over the past 150 years for Northern Hemisphere freshwaters, we know relatively little about how ice loss directly affects humans. Here, we synthesize the cultural ecosystem services (i.e., services that provide intangible or nonmaterial benefits) and associated benefits supported by inland ice. We also provide, for the first time, empirical examples that give quantitative evidence for a winter warming effect on a wide range of ice-related cultural ecosystem services and benefits. We show that in recent decades, warmer air temperatures delayed the opening date of winter ice roads and led to cancellations of spiritual ceremonies, outdoor ice skating races, and ice fishing tournaments. Additionally, our synthesis effort suggests unexploited data sets that allow for the use of integrative approaches to evaluate the interplay between inland ice loss and society.With the majority of the world's lakes located at higher latitudes (>45 N) in the Northern Hemisphere (Verpoorter et al. 2014), seasonal ice cover is a common phenomenon (Denfeld et al. 2018). As a result of climate change, shorter ice duration or incomplete ice cover are becoming more common around the world (Magnuson et al. 2000;Benson et al. 2012;Sharma et al. 2019). Projected trends for air temperature and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere suggest that seasonal ice cover duration will continue to decline (Shuter et al. 2013;Yao et al. 2014;Magee and Wu 2017;Hewitt et al. 2018;Sharma et al. 2019).Such losses in lake and river ice do not occur without reducing the uses of ice cover by people. However, it appears that the cultural ecosystem services and benefits that ice

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“…Not surprisingly, Peter did away with one annual, very symbolic religiouspolitical ceremony: the one whereby, on Palm Sunday, the czar, as a humble believer walking afoot, led the patriarch, representing Jesus and on horseback, through the Moscow Kremlin and, moreover, through the city, showing, for all to see, the subordination of secular to religious power. 72 The other annually recurring imperial-political-religious ceremony took place in the capital itself-first in Moscow, later in St. Petersburg-, on January, 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany. A tent was set up on the frozen Neva River, and a hole bored in the thick ice.…”

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The Epiphany Ceremony of the Russian Court in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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