The Byzantine Theocracy: The Weil Lectures, CincinattiThe constitution of the Byzantine Empire was based on the conviction that it was the earthly copy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as God ruled in Heaven, so the Emperor, made in his image, should rule on earth and carry out his commandments. This was the theory, but in practice the state was never free from its Roman past, particularly the Roman law, and its heritage of Greek culture. Sir Steven Runciman's Weil lectures trace the various ways in which the Emperor tried to put the theory into practice - and thus the changing relationship between church and state - from the days of the first Constantine to those of the eleventh. The theocratic constitution remained virtually unchanged during those eleven centuries. No other constitution in the Christian era has endured for so long. |
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Page 35 - Again Herodias is raging, again she is dancing, again she demands the head of John on a platter." ' The comparison of Eudoxia with Herodias, and himself (John) with John the Baptist was even more directly personal than his former allusion to the relation of Jezebel and Elijah. Whether he really spoke these or similar words is at least doubtful, but they were reported to Eudoxia, who as...
Page 186 - DJ Geanakoplos, Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West (Cambridge, Mass., 1959), pp.
Page 176 - Les Debuts de la querelle des images," in Melanges Charles Diehl (Paris, 1930), I, 235-55 : A- A.
Page 30 - Basil of Caesarea, his brother, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Page 1 - God's image, so man's kingdom on earth was made in the image of the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as God ruled in Heaven, so an Emperor, made in His image, should rule on earth and carry out His commandments. Evil had made its way into God's creation, and man was stained with sin. But if the copy - the Greek word was mimesis, 'imitation...
Page 2 - imitation' - could be achieved, with the Emperor and his ministers and counsellors imitating God with His archangels and angels and saints, then life on earth could become a proper preparation for the truer reality of life in Heaven.
Page 184 - Asia Minor, see S. Vryonis, The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh Through the Fifteenth Century (Berkeley, 1971), p.
Page 146 - On 2 February 1267, the Emperor knelt bare-headed in front of the Patriarch and the Holy Synod and confessed his sin. The ban of the Church was then lifted from him.19 It was a triumph for the Church as the guardian of morality.
Page 170 - Cyril presided; Cyril was accuser; Cyril was judge; Cyril was Bishop of Rome; Cyril was everything' - see Nestorius, Le Livre d'Heraclide de Damas, ed.

