01178nam a2200169Ia 4500 230822s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97808814107920881410799 eng DK67.5.B95 .M49 1989 Meyendorff, John Byzantium and the rise of Russia : a study of Byzantino-Russian relations in the fourteenth century / John Meyendorff Crestwood, NY : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1989 xix, 326 p. : map; 23 cm. Byzantine civilization in Russia -- The catastrophes of the thirteenth century -- The Mongols, their Western neighbours and their Russian subjects -- The Metropolitanate of Kiev and all Russia -- Victory of the Hesychasts in Byzantium : ideological and political consequences -- Cultural ties : Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia -- Byzantium and Moscow -- Patriarch Philotheos and Russia (1364-76) -- Metropolitan Cyprian and Moscow's separatism (1376-81) -- Lithuania turns westwards -- Conclusion : dreams and reality. Diplomatic relations.Russia Foreign relations Byzantine Empire.Byzantine Empire Foreign relations Russia. 45125 45125