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Der tote Papst im Sessel und andere Gespenster
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Bojcov M. A.
Analysed are circumstances of the death of pope John XXII in 1334, the results of examination of his corpse in 1759 as well as long historiographilcal debates about assumed displaying of dead popes sitting on their thrones nine days long before burial.
Boltunova E., Новая и новейшая история 2026 Vol. 70 No. 1 P. 17–28
This article examines the ceremonial practices surrounding the burial and commemoration of Emperor Alexander I and their role in articulating hierarchical representations of imperial space. Alexander I died in November 1825 in Taganrog, more than one thousand miles from Saint Petersburg, and the transfer of his body to the imperial capital took several months. The funeral cortege travelled through ...
Added: January 10, 2026
Petrova T., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2025 Т. 17 № 2 С. 56–81
Nikita Khrushchev was the first Soviet leader, who practiced visits around the country as a scenario of power. During his seven years as the leader of the party and the government, he made several dozen tours of the regions and republics of the USSR, within which he checked the work of local authorities and communicated ...
Added: October 21, 2025
Королева М. В., В кн.: На пути к государствам нового времени: Запад и Восток Европы в конце XV - XVII веке.: М., Калуга: Калужский государственный институт развития образования, 2020. С. 344–368.
The article studies the use of the oath in Russia in the 17th century. Firstly, it was used as a means of consolidation and legitimization of power in the struggle of various political forces. Secondly, the oath was a guarantee that the offi cial duties in relation to the sovereign were thoroughly performed. Thirdly, it was used ...
Added: January 24, 2024
Stefanovich P., В кн.: Русь, Россия: Средневековье и Новое времяВып. 6: Шестые чтения памяти академика РАН Л.В. Милова. Материалы к международной научной конференции. Москва, 21–22 ноября 2019 г.: М.: Исторический факультет МГУ, 2019. С. 91–95.
The author studies the origins and meaning of three elements which constituted an official address of nobles to the ruler in Russia in the 16-17th centuries: the title gosudar’, self-definition holop and the ritual of chelobit’e (“beating the head”). He concludes that all of them formed on the base of Old-Russian traditions, though influenced by ...
Added: November 3, 2019
Гасан Гусейнов, Археология русской смерти. Death studies journal 2017 Т. 1 № 4 С. 29–37
Official and non.official social discourse of the death in the Soviet Union. ...
Added: November 1, 2018
Федонников Н. А., Vox Medii Aevi 2017 № 1 С. 90–105
This article is devoted to investigation of the burial places of Merovingian kings. The aim of this research was to estimate the certain places of Merovingian burials, the purposes for their selection and sacred links between kings and these places. Burial places demonstrated that kings were under the patronage of a saints and expressed the ...
Added: December 14, 2017
Stefanovich P., В кн.: Православная энциклопедияТ. 38.: М.: Церковно-научный центр "Православная энциклопедия", 2015. С. 561–564.
The article is the first thorough treatment of the ritual "cross-kissing" which was used in medieval Rus' and in Russia until 1917 in politics, administration of justice and private relations. ...
Added: March 14, 2016
Musikhin G. I., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2015 № 2 С. 98–109
The article attempts to analyze political rituals in the light of distinguishing between conventional-indicative and unconventional-symbolic meaning of politics. The author documents ontological difference and communicative similarity between religious and political rituals, shows that the mechanism of everyday ritualization contributes to the increasing importance of less substantive components of political action, reveals the role of ...
Added: June 10, 2015
Boytsov M., German History 2015 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 177–193
The author seeks the origins of a specific political ceremony that was quite common not only in medieval but also in early modern Germanic Länder. When solemnly entering a city, the riding prince used to be surrounded by criminals, previously convicted by local courts and sentenced to exile. He brought these convicts with him back ...
Added: December 20, 2014
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
Als Jacques Duèze am 7. August 1316 zum Papst gewählt wurde, war er bereits 72 Jahre alt. Die Kardinäle hatten ihn als Kompromiss‑ und Übergangskandidaten vorgesehen, dessen absehbarer Tod eine neue Wahl ermöglichen würde, doch diese Erwartung wurde gründlich enttäuscht. Als Papst Johannes XXII. regierte er 18 Jahre und war der bedeutendste der in Avignon ...
Added: November 6, 2013
Bojcov M. A., Majestas 1997 Vol. 5 P. 23–66
The article deals with some specific technical forms of representation of royal and princely power in medieval Europe. ...
Added: October 30, 2013
Bojcov M. A., Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 1997 Vol. 24 P. 87–107
The article describes different ways of visual representation of princely entries in medieval cities and towns. ...
Added: October 30, 2013