Christopher James Sprecher: Emperor and God, Gebunden

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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.