Emperor and God Passion Relics and the Divinisation of Byzantine Rulers, 944–1204
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Heidelberg Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) heiUP [Imprint] 2024Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (241 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9783968222257
- 9783968222264
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- Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc
- Historical states, empires, territories and regions
- Historical states, empires, territories and regions: multi-continental
- Byzantine Empire
- Time period qualifiers
- CE period up to c 1500
- History and Archaeology
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- 1Q Other geographical groupings
- 1QB Historical states
- 1QBC Historical states
- 1QBCB Byzantine Empire
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- 3K CE period up to c 1500
- Byzantium
- Byzanz
- Heiliger Stein
- Holy Stone
- Mandylion
- N History and Archaeology
- Oceans and seas
- Relics
- Reliquien
- True Cross
- Wahres Kreuz
- empires
- historical
- multi-continental
- political etc
- territories and regions
- thema EDItEUR
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This study explores how the understanding of the Byzantine emperor as a sacred or divine figure changed in the Middle Byzantine period. It is based on close readings and studies of three medieval Passion relics held in Constantinople: the Mandylion, the relic-reliquary ensemble of the Limburg Staurotheke; and the Holy Stone. Accompanied by English-language translations of medieval Greek source texts pertaining to these relics, Sprecher demonstrates that the Passion relics in this period served to focus and narrow an understanding of the emperor not only as divinely appointed and anointed ruler, but also in surprising ways as being somehow divine himself.
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