medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Briggs wrote:
> 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
Thanks for the correction. But the early 13th is an awkward time since
the Franks were in CP as of 1203 & stayed till 1261. Between 1203 & the
conquest in 1204 the various machinations chewed up 3 emperors. The
sources I have on hand say nothing about the coronations/crowning [if
any] of Alexios 4 & Alexios 5, or of the 1261 restoration emperor,
Michael 8, or if the Frankish Emperors were anointed. Probably since
that had become the Western model & they had an RC patriarch. So that
sentence you quote is not perfectly clear.
DW
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