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Church and State in the Byzantine Empire

A Reconsideration of The Problem of Caesaropapism

Bibliographic Data

ID3361857
AuthorsDeno J Geanakoplos (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year1965
Volume34
Issue4
Pages381-403
Publication date1965-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3163118
OpenAlexW2112389223
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited8

In the medieval theocratic societies of both the Byzantine East and the Latin West, where the influence of Christian precepts so strongly pervaded all aspects of life, it was inevitable that the institutions of church and state, of sacerdotium and regnum to use the traditional Latin terms, be closely tied to one another. But whereas in the West, at least after the investiture conflict of the eleventh century, the pope managed to exert a strong political influence over secular rulers, notably the Holy Roman Emperor, in the East, from the very foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century, the Byzantine emperor seemed clearly to dominate over his chief ecclesiastical official, the patriarch

Ancient history · Byzantine architecture · Byzantine studies · Eleventh · Emperor · Empire · Late Antiquity · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Theocracy · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law

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Citations per year0.69
Citation span2010 - 2026 (17)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8

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