Le Roi - Soleil Byzantin: l'Orthodoxie Comme Instrument Politique Et Juridique Sous Manuel I Comnène (1143-1180)

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73817-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Französisch, Band 45, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

The Komnenian era was marked by an ultra-conservative political programme that reinforced imperial authority through Orthodox theology and Roman-Byzantine legal traditions. Under Manuel I Komnenos, imperial propaganda employed a highly sacerdotal vocabulary to portray the emperor as a divinely sanctioned ruler. This study examines how rhetoric mediated between law and society, framing sacral imperial imagery as a component of Byzantine public law and constitutional culture. It argues that Orthodoxy functioned not merely as a religious doctrine but as a calculated tool of imperial propaganda and legitimacy within the broader framework of Byzantine political and legal ideology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stavropoulos, Evangelos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Evangelos Stavropoulos, Ph.D (2017) University Paris Sud – Jean Monnet, is Professor of History of Law and Institutions at the university. He has published monographs and articles on Roman and Byzantine constitutional culture, including Imperium et Sacerdotium, Droit et Pouvoir sous Manuel Ier Comnène (Brepols, 2021).