Title: Emperor and priest : the imperial office in Byzantium
Abstract: 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.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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