The Donation of Zeno
St. Barnabas and the Modern History of the Cypriot Archbishop's Regalia Privileges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3579518 |
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| Authors | Joseph P Huffman (0000-0001-5231-6515, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 713-745 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000964071500092x |
| OpenAlex | W2604127308 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Modern church historians have roundly accepted the ancient pedigree of imperial regalia privileges exercised by the archbishops of Cyprus, yet new research has shown that their origins are actually to be found in the mid-sixteenth century and within a decidedly western intellectual and ecclesial orbit. This article builds on such findings by documenting the modern history of these privileges and their relationship to the emerging political role of the archbishops of Cyprus as ethnarchs as well as archbishops of the Cypriot community under both Ottoman and British empires. Travelling across the boundaries of western and non-western cultures and employing a rich interdisciplinary array of evidence (chronicles, liturgy and liturgical vestments, hagiography, iconography, insignia, painting, cartography, diplomacy, and travel literature), this article presents a coherent reconstruction of the imperial regalia tradition's modern historical evolution and its profound impact on modern Cypriot church history. This study integrates the often compartmentalized English, French, Italian, German, and Greek scholarship of many subfields, producing a new holistic understanding of how the archbishop's ethnarchic aspirations could produce a spiritual culture in which St. Barnabas, the island's founding patron saint and once famous apostolic reconciler, became transformed into an ethnarchic national patriot and defender against foreign conquerors
Ancient history · Archaeology · Archbishop · Art history · Diplomacy · Early Modern Europe · Liturgy · Monarchy · Patron saint · Political science · Politics · SAINT · Scholarship · Classics · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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