ENGLISH

Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium

By Gilbert , Dagron

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0521801230
ASIN
0521036976
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13937659 bytes)
Series
Past and Present
Pages
337\175
Topic
History
Orientation
no
Scanned
landscape
Time added
2017-04-29 16:09:32
Byzantine Empirebyzantine historybyzantiumcaesaropapismchurch and statechurch historyideologyimperial historykingshiplater roman empireorthodoxy

Description

This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et prtre, 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.

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