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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Saturday, November 3, 2007, at 5:28 pm, Marjorie Greene wrote: > > Diana wrote: > It looks as if anointing came into the > process with Basil I (867). > > Again, the 9th c. What was it about the 9th c.? If that's in fact when it came in. Basil I may be merely the first basileus whose anointing is recorded. The oldest surviving euchologion of the Byzantine Rite, the later eighth-century Barberini Euchologium (BAV, Barberinianus graecus 336), includes a coronation ritual in which the patriarch prays that the emperor be anointed with oil. Whether an actual anointing followed is neither confirmed nor excluded by the text. See the discussion in Leslie Brubaker, _Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium_ (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 187-88. According to Brubaker (loc. cit.), Byzantine references to imperial anointing are rare. Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html