Emperor and Priest. The Imperial Office in Byzantium, Past and Present Publications.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag Cover an einer Stelle leicht verschmutzt, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar / dust jacket cover slightly soiled in one place, otherwise a very good copy. - This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et pr�e (1996), 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' against a wide background of relations between church and state and religious and political spheres. While in the medieval west the Empire was broken down into its various temporal realms, leaving spiritual matters to the papacy, the Byzantine east preserved the structures of an empire whose ruler - the anointed successor of David - received directly from God his mission to lead his Christian subjects. In this sense, the emperor was a priest, albeit 'of another priesthood' or a quasi-bishop. Historians have continued the debate on this subject since the time of the Reformation, declaring 'caesaropapism' to be a malady of the east. Yet the ambiguities and nuances of this divided imperial role can still be perceived today. Presenting much unfamiliar material in complex, brilliant style, as much for western medievalists as for Byzantinists, it will attract all historians concerned with royal and ecclesiastical sources of power. CONTENTS List of plates List of plans Acknowledgements Bibliographical abbreviations Introduction Part 1 The Principles 1 Heredity, legitimacy and succession 2 Proclamations and coronations 3 Ceremonial and memory Part 2 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 3 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. ISBN 9780521801232