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From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the
Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of
government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far
the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and
defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire.
Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of
the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume,
containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been
enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the
city's European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a
variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from
the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export,
communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and
artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.
This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's
Empereur et pretre, 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.
The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. Written by one of the world's leading Byzantine scholars, this classic book studies in detail the imperial union of "two powers," temporal and spiritual, against the broad background of the relationship between church and state and religious and political spheres.
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