Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Note on proper names; Introduction; 1. Byzantine civilization in Russia; 2. The catastrophes of the thirteenth century; 3. The Mongols, their Western neighbours and their Russian subjects; 4. The metropolitanate of Kiev and all Russia; 5. Victory of the Hesychasts in Byzantium: ideological and political consequences; 6. Cultural ties: Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia; 7. Byzantium and Moscow; 8. Patriarch Philotheos and Russia (1364–76); 9. Metropolitan Cyprian and Moscow's separatism (1376–81); 10. Lithuania turns westwards; Conclusion: dreams and reality; Appendices; Index.

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This book describes the role of Byzantine diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow in the fourteenth century.