Testimonies Concerning the Patriarch Nicon, the Tsar, and the Boyars, from the Travels of the Patriarch Macarius of Antioch

This 1873 book is the second of six volumes documenting the controversial life of Nicon (1605–1681), Patriarch of Moscow.

William Palmer (Edited by)

9781108014878, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

640 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.8 kg

William Palmer (1811–1879) was a theologian and ecumenist best known for his attempts to forge links between the Anglican and Orthodox churches. Palmer was elected a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1832, and became an adherent of the Oxford Movement, which emphasised the catholicity of the Anglican church. In the 1840s and 1850s Palmer visited Russia with the controversial aim of studying Orthodox theology and being admitted to communion by the Russian church. His request was refused, however, and his visit deemed a failure. Palmer converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855. Testimonies Concerning the Patriarch Nicon, the Tsar and the Boyars (1873) is Volume 2 of The Patriarch and the Tsar (1871–1876), Palmer's six-volume translation of documents relating to the life of Nicon (1605–1681), Patriarch of Moscow, whose theological reforms brought him into conflict with the Muscovite Tsar Alexis.

Preface
1. Journey from Aleppo to Constantinople
2. Stay in Moldavia, at Jassy, &c.
3. Wallachia, at Tergovist, &c.
4. The Kozak country
5. The Kozak country
6. Muscovy
7. Muscovy
8. Moscow
9. Moscow
10. Moscow
11. Moscow
12. Visit to the Iversky convent, and to Novgorod
13. Novgorod and Moscow
14. Moscow, and the Kozak country
15. Moldavia and Wallachia
16. Wallachia
17. Black Sea, Anatolia
18. Syria
Appendices.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]