This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et pr???tre, 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 ...
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This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et pr???tre, 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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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0521801230 Pages: 356 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0521801230. Name on inside front cover, otherwise text clean and tight; Past and Present Publications; 8.98 X 6.14 X 1.18 inches; 354 pages.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0521801230. Very minor shelfwear.; 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.; Past and Present Publications; 354 pages.