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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Language: | deu |
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2016-11-01
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Series: | Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art |
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Online Access: | http://anastasis-review.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/III-2-Raluca-Minea-BDT.pdf |
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. |
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ISSN: | 2392-862X 2392-9472 |