medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Diana Wright wrote:
>
> Pasting here a fascinating BMCR review of a book on the sacramental
> aspect of Byzantine emperors. It looks as if anointing came into the
> process with Basil I (867).
You're misreading: "The emperor-- like the Messiah before him -- was the
anointed in a metaphorical sense. An actual anointment by the patriarch,
based on a Latin model, is known in Byzantium only from the beginning of the
13th century."
John Briggs
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