The Russian Religious Mind (II): The Middle Ages: The 13th to the 15th Centuries by George P. Fedotov (Nordland Publishing Company: Belmont, MA, 1975). Paperback, 405 pp.

A study by Professor George Petrovich Fedotov (1886-1951) of Russian history and theology from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries with particular attention paid to religious experience and the role of holy men. In the words of its editor, “This volume shows the growth of Muscovite ideology in Russia and presents the evidence of its gradual victory over the remains of Kievan culture, the Mongol domination, the imperial centralization of the state, the suppression of the Novgorod Republic, the triumph of the Josephite party over the nonpossessors, and the final tragedy of Russian spirituality. ”