Coronations in Byzantium were an extraordinary testing ground rich in ritual and ceremonial significance in which many of the political ideas related to the divine origin of the power of the emperors converged. This article engages the Church intervention in the ceremony of the imperial coronation, the idea of “mediation” that this reality embodies, its symbolic implications, and its relevance as the ceremony that was also spread in the European Western Kingdoms.
Aurell, J. (2017). The ecclesiastical mediation in the coronations of the byzantine emperor and its symbolic implications. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (36), pp. 137–156. Retrieved from https://byzantion.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/47713
