Emperor and Priest
The Imperial Office in Byzantium
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- Author: Gilbert Dagron, Collège de France, Paris
- Translator: Jean Birrell
- Date Published: October 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521801232
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This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et prêtre, an acknowledged masterwork by one of the great Byzantine scholars of our time. The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. This book studies in detail the imperial union of 'two powers', temporal and spiritual, against a wide background of relations between Church and state and religious and political spheres. Presenting much unfamiliar material in complex, brilliant style, it is aimed at all historians concerned with royal and ecclesiastical sources of power.
Read more- An English translation of one of the greatest works in Byzantine studies of recent times, by arguably the world's leading Byzantinist
- Creates an alternative agenda and importance for the crucial dual role, as priest and emperor, of the rulers of the Byzantine empire
- It is wholly devoted to the office of the Byzantine emperor, as against the many books devoted to individual rulers or dynasties
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'… This is a very significant book for Byzantine specialists … Indeed, no one interested in the varieties of earthly sovereignty should be unaware of it.' John W. Barker, Speculum
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- Date Published: October 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521801232
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.69kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates
List of plans
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Principles:
1. Heredity, legitimacy and succession
2. Proclamations and coronations
3. Ceremonial and memory
Part II. The Emperors:
4. Constantine the Great: imperial sainthood
5. Leo III and the iconoclast emperors: Melchizedek or antiChrist?
6. Basil the Macedonian, Leo VI and Constantine VII: ceremonial and religion
Part III. The Clergy:
7. The kingship of the patriarchs (eighth to eleventh centuries)
8. The canonists and liturgists (twelfth to fifteenth centuries)
9. 'Caesaropapism' and the theory of the 'two powers'
Epilogue: the house of Judah and the house of Levi
Glossary
Index.
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