This article situates the Stoglav Council within the reformist program of Metropolitan Makarii and the «Izbrannaia rada» at the end 40-50s of the 16th century. The study interprets these events through the historiographical frameworks of early modern state building and "confessionalization," extending this concept from Western Reformation scholarship to the Russian Orthodox context. The author argues that the Muscovite state actively intervened in confessional self-determination through intensified conciliar activity. Consequently, despite the Council’s rhetorical appeal to «starina» (old times), its resolutions substantively advanced modernization. The study concludes that the Stoglav Council was pivotal in establishing new representative institutions and consolidating the Russian ecclesiastical legal tradition, thereby aligning the Church with the structural exigencies of the emerging early modern state.
Moscow State University, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0009-0000-8479-8053
Chapter Title
Пути конфессионализации в России XVI века: Стоглавый Собор между традицией и новациями
Authors
Elena Emchenko
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0893-2.13
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
Copyright Information
© 2025 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Book Title
In dialogo con l'Occidente: Rinascimento e renovatio nella Russia del Cinquecento / В диалоге с Западом: возрождение и религиозное обновление в России XVI века
Editors
Marcello Garzaniti, Ovanes Akopyan, Iris Karafillidis, Francesca Romoli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2025
Copyright Information
© 2025 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0893-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0916-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0893-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0894-9
Series Title
Europe in between. Histories, cultures and languages from Central Europe to the Eurasian Steppes
Series ISSN
2975-0318
Series E-ISSN
2975-0326