Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia
This article focuses on attempts of the Papal Curia to establish contacts with the Prince of Novgorod and subsequently the Grand Prince of Vladimir Alexander Nevsky, as Eastern Europe suffered devastating invasion of Mongols and the impending establishment of their domination. At the Council of Lyo...
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| description | This article focuses on attempts of the Papal Curia to establish contacts with the Prince of Novgorod
and subsequently the Grand Prince of Vladimir Alexander Nevsky, as Eastern Europe suffered devastating invasion of Mongols and the impending establishment of their domination. At the Council of Lyon in 1245 the papacy presented the idea of assisting Russian princes against the Mongolian
conquerors. However, this plan was tied to a rather fantastical project of a Catholic mission to Orthodox Russians which would have enabled mending of the East-West Schism. In addition, the Russian principalities were to fulfil the role of a defensive barrier intended to prevent another Mongolian invasion to the West. While Daniil Romanovich, the Prince of Galicia-Volhynia, accepted Pope’s
offer, temporarily converted to Catholicism and was subsequently crowned a king, Alexander denied a similar offer of pope Innocent IV to become a Catholic. The author’s aim is to adjust the traditional image of Alexander Nevsky as a rigorous defender of Orthodoxy and intransigent enemy of
both the Catholicism and a church union. Alexander was a rationally thinking and pragmatic politician and did not decline dealing with Catholics solely for their different religious beliefs. Naturally,
the Grand Prince was a proponent of Orthodoxy, cooperated extensively with the Russian Orthodox Church and the idea of a church union was inadmissible to him. The reasons for Alexander’s
behaviour did not stem merely from confessional differences but rather had their own political dimensions. The alliance with the Papal Curia was simply of no value to Alexander. Firstly, the assistance offered by the Pope never materialized — as Daniil had to painfully experience. Secondly, the
Grand Prince could not have foreseen what kind of relation between the emerging Horde and Russian principalities would have developed, and therefore decided to pursue the policy of non-resistance towards the Mongols. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f924fd2ae5e54aef88bbb6cc6549031d2022-12-22T02:09:24ZdeuUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaPrague Papers on the History of International Relations1803-73562336-71052017-06-0113850Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curiaDana Picková0Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles UniversityThis article focuses on attempts of the Papal Curia to establish contacts with the Prince of Novgorod and subsequently the Grand Prince of Vladimir Alexander Nevsky, as Eastern Europe suffered devastating invasion of Mongols and the impending establishment of their domination. At the Council of Lyon in 1245 the papacy presented the idea of assisting Russian princes against the Mongolian conquerors. However, this plan was tied to a rather fantastical project of a Catholic mission to Orthodox Russians which would have enabled mending of the East-West Schism. In addition, the Russian principalities were to fulfil the role of a defensive barrier intended to prevent another Mongolian invasion to the West. While Daniil Romanovich, the Prince of Galicia-Volhynia, accepted Pope’s offer, temporarily converted to Catholicism and was subsequently crowned a king, Alexander denied a similar offer of pope Innocent IV to become a Catholic. The author’s aim is to adjust the traditional image of Alexander Nevsky as a rigorous defender of Orthodoxy and intransigent enemy of both the Catholicism and a church union. Alexander was a rationally thinking and pragmatic politician and did not decline dealing with Catholics solely for their different religious beliefs. Naturally, the Grand Prince was a proponent of Orthodoxy, cooperated extensively with the Russian Orthodox Church and the idea of a church union was inadmissible to him. The reasons for Alexander’s behaviour did not stem merely from confessional differences but rather had their own political dimensions. The alliance with the Papal Curia was simply of no value to Alexander. Firstly, the assistance offered by the Pope never materialized — as Daniil had to painfully experience. Secondly, the Grand Prince could not have foreseen what kind of relation between the emerging Horde and Russian principalities would have developed, and therefore decided to pursue the policy of non-resistance towards the Mongols.https://praguepapers.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2017/09/Dana_Pickova_38-50.pdfAlexander NevskyDaniil Romanovichthe Prince od Galicia-VolhyniaRussian Princes and the Papal Curiathe First Council of LyonEast-West SchismChurch UnionMongolian Invasion |
| spellingShingle | Dana Picková Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia Prague Papers on the History of International Relations Alexander Nevsky Daniil Romanovich the Prince od Galicia-Volhynia Russian Princes and the Papal Curia the First Council of Lyon East-West Schism Church Union Mongolian Invasion |
| title | Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia |
| title_full | Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia |
| title_fullStr | Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia |
| title_short | Святой благоверный князь Александр и папская курия || Saint right -believing prince Alexander and the papal curia |
| title_sort | святой благоверный князь александр и папская курия saint right believing prince alexander and the papal curia |
| topic | Alexander Nevsky Daniil Romanovich the Prince od Galicia-Volhynia Russian Princes and the Papal Curia the First Council of Lyon East-West Schism Church Union Mongolian Invasion |
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