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            Emperor and God

            Passion Relics and the Divinisation of Byzantine Rulers, 944–1204

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            Sprecher, Christopher
            Language
            German
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            Abstract
            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.
             
            Diese Studie untersucht, wie sich das Verständnis des byzantinischen Kaisers als heilige oder göttliche Figur in der mittelbyzantinischen Periode veränderte. Sie stützt sich dabei auf die genaue Lektüre und das Studium dreier mittelalterlicher Passionsreliquien, die in Konstantinopel aufbewahrt wurden: des Mandylions, des Reliquienensembles der Limburger Staurotheke sowie des Heiligen Steins. Begleitet von ins Englische übersetzten mittelalterlichen griechischen Quellentexten, die sich auf diese Reliquien beziehen, zeigt Sprecher, dass die Passionsreliquien in dieser Zeit dazu dienten, den Kaiser nicht nur als von Gott ernannten und gesalbten Herrscher zu präsentieren, sondern ihn auf überraschende Weise auch selbst als göttlich erscheinen zu lassen.
             
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            https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/175311
            Keywords
            True Cross; Byzantium; Mandylion; Relics; Holy Stone; Wahres Kreuz; Byzanz; Reliquien; Heiliger Stein; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBC Historical states, empires, territories and regions: multi-continental::1QBCB Byzantine Empire
            DOI
            10.17885/heiup.1240
            ISBN
            9783968222257, 9783968222264
            Publisher
            Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)
            Publisher website
            heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/
            Publication date and place
            Heidelberg, 2024
            Imprint
            heiUP
            Series
            Kulturelles Erbe: Materialität – Text – Edition (KEMTE),
            Pages
            241
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