An Aspect of the Symbolism of the Political Power during the Middle Ages: the Anointment

The anointment is a ritual that offers a sacred dimension to the coronation. The specialists who have studied the two rituals of power investment, anointing and coronation, could not establish the pre-eminence of one over the other. It can be assumed, however, based on domestic documents and example...

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Main Author: Raluca Minea
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Artes 2016-11-01
Series:Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art
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Summary:The anointment is a ritual that offers a sacred dimension to the coronation. The specialists who have studied the two rituals of power investment, anointing and coronation, could not establish the pre-eminence of one over the other. It can be assumed, however, based on domestic documents and examples from history, that “the coronation represents a first stage, a gesture of which value was, in time, overshadowed by anointment” . The moment in which the anointing appears can be linked to the context of a “crisis of legitimacy” when the Church agrees to act as an intercessor between the sovereign and divinity . In the middle of the 9th century, coronation became, along with chrismation, a permanent component of the ecclesiastical procedures of consecration of a new sovereign.
ISSN:2392-862X
2392-9472