Robert Collis
Leverhulme Fellow
The University of Sheffield
E-mail:R.Collis@sheffield.ac.uk
I am currently researching a project entitled "Western Esotericism and the Russian Nobility, 1689-1825", as part of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship..
Ph.D. Thesis:The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 (Turku: Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, 2007)
Edited Volume: Freemasonry and Fraternalism in Eighteenth-Century Russia, with Andreas Önnerfors (Sheffield: Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2009).
Selected Articles:
- 'Using the Stars: Astrology at the Court of Peter the Great’, in Nicholas Campion (ed.), Astrologies: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Sophia Centre Conference 2010 (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2011). Forthcoming in 2011.
- ”Stars Rule Over People, but God Rules Over the Stars”: The Astrological Worldview of Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (1676-1727)’, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteruopas, Band 59, forthcoming in 2011.
- Skitaias’ pod neschastlivoi zvezdoi: astrologicheskie izyskaniia Elizeusa Bomeliusa (1560-e—1570-e) v Anglii’, Britanskie issledovaniia, Vypusk III (Rostov-On-Don: Iuzhnyi federal’nyi universitet), forthcoming in 2010.
- ‘Jacobite Networks, Freemasonry and Fraternal Sociability and their Influence in Russia, 1714-1740’, Politica Hermetica, Vol. 24 (2010), pp. 89-99
- 'Chivalric Muses: The Role and Influence of Protectresses in Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Fraternities', in Maire Cross (ed.) Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe from 1200 Until the Present (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 102-32.
- Maxim the Greek, Astrology and the Great Conjunction of 1524’, The Slavonic and East European ReviewT, Vol. 88, Number 4 (Oct. 2010), pp. 602-23.
- 'Freemasonry and the Occult at the Court of Peter the Great,’ Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Vol. VI, No.1, 2006, pp. 1-26.
- ‘Alchemical Interest at the Petrine Court,’ Esoterica, Vol VII, (2005) Online peer-reviewed journal hosted by Michigan State University. Go to www.esoteric.msu.edu