The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia. |
Contents
Quirinus Kuhlmanns Millenarian Mission to Moscow
in 1689 | 1 |
Introduction | 7 |
Part One Jacobite Servitors | 47 |
A Scientific Sorcerer at the Court of Peter the Great | 49 |
Scottish Jacobite Roots | 56 |
Early Training in the Foreign Quarter in Moscow and in London in 1698 | 59 |
Natural Philosophy | 93 |
Alchemy and Mysticism | 97 |
Introduction | 276 |
Introduction | 296 |
Pietism and the Petrine Instauration | 339 |
Conclusion | 354 |
Part Three Peter the Great | 355 |
Introduction | 357 |
Chapter Five Peter the Greats Divine Mission | 359 |
Peter the Great as King David | 364 |
Religion | 109 |
Advancement of Learning | 115 |
Conclusion | 118 |
An Iatrochemist at the Petrine Court | 121 |
Robert Erskines Ancestry and Jacobite Links | 124 |
An Iatrochemist at the Petrine Court | 134 |
Erskine the Chemical Philosopher | 145 |
Erskine Balneology and His Treatment of Peter the Great | 151 |
Astral and Divine Medicine | 161 |
Erskine and Natural Philosophy | 171 |
Erskine the Natural Philosopher | 188 |
Erskine and Religion | 191 |
Conclusion | 206 |
Part Two Ukrainian Clerics | 209 |
An Esoteric Wordsmith at the Cout of Peter the Great | 211 |
Iavorskiis Kievan Period | 214 |
The Apocalyptic Mystical and Esoteric Sermons of Stefan Iavorskii | 219 |
Conclusion | 269 |
The Eclectic Worldview of Feofan Prokopovich 16811736 | 271 |
The Prophetic Significance of the Nystad Peace of 1721 | 373 |
St Petersburg as New Jerusalem | 385 |
Chapter Six The Role of Religion and Esotericism in Shaping Peter the Greats Vision of Scientific Reform | 405 |
Francis Lees Vision of Scientific Reform in Russia | 406 |
Gottfried Leibnizs Vision of Scientific Reform in Russia | 409 |
Peter the Great and the Development of the St Petersburg Kunstkamera | 417 |
Towards an Academy of Sciences | 458 |
The Esoteric Interests of Peter the Great | 460 |
Conclusion | 515 |
Appendices | 523 |
Appendix A Alchemical Authors and Works in Bruces Library | 525 |
Appendix B Notable Esoteric Works in Bruces Library | 529 |
Appendix C Alchemical Authors and Works in Erskines Library | 531 |
Appendix D Notable Esoteric Texts in Erskines Library | 543 |
Appendix E Alchemical Authors and Works in Prokopovichs Library | 546 |
Appendix F Notable Esoteric Works in Prokopovichs
Library | 548 |
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