Object's details: Marriage and Power (Images of Authority)

Provider:Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Description

Title:
Marriage and Power (Images of Authority)
Creator:
Biliarsky, Ivan
Contributor:
Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 52 Shipchenski Prohod Boulevard, ap. block 17, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria;
ivan.biliarsky@gmail.com
Description:
This article is devoted to the question concerning the conceptualization of power and its religious basis in pre-modern societies, carried out through a study of the inauguration rituals – especially the marriage – that mark not only the instigation of the power of the ruler but also suggests its religious basis, conceptualization and justification. It is grounded on source material from Byzantium and its legacy in the countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. The analysis has shown the woman as legitimating power in the case of royalty in connection with its correspondence to marriage. The legitimation and confirmation of the kingship in some pagan cultures passed through a hierogamy, conceived as a unity with the universal harmony in the image of a chthonic goddess. From the Christian point of view the relations between the royal bride and the bridegroom was under the archetypal model of the relation of Jesus Christ to His Church. He (Christ and the christian ruler) became a priest and king of the order of Melchisedek. That is why the rite of passage to Kingship corresponds to that of marriage, instituted by Lord Jesus Christ under the model of His own relation to the Church.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl ;
© Copyright by Ivan Biliarsky, Łódź 2015; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2015
Date:
2016.05.18;
2015
Type:
Article
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Center for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe;5
Subject:
power conceptualization and legitimization;
pre-modern societies;
rite de passage;
Christian marriage;
Byzantine political and religious ideology;
Orthodox liturgy and theology
Identifier:
I. Biliarsky, Marriage and Power (Images of Authority), „Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Center for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe” 2015, Vol. 5, s. 9–32.;
2084-140X;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18100 ;
2449-8378;
10.18778/2084-140X.05.01
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Similar objects

Marriage and Power (Images of Authority)

Creator:Biliarsky, Ivan

Date:2016.05.18 | 2015

Type:image

Rex or Imperator? Kalojan’s Royal Title in the Correspondence with Innocent III

Creator:Dall’Aglio, Francesco

Date:2021.08.27 | 2019.12.30

Type:image

The spousal union of Christ and The Church and the sacrament of marriage in the apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia

Creator:Tron, Andrei

Date:2018.09.18

Type:text

The Issue of Family and Christian Marriage in the Light of the Catechesis Given by the Holy Father Francis in 2014/2015

Creator:Jeżewski, Michał

Date:2017.03.02

Type:text

Diana Mishkova, Rival Byzantiums. Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, pp. X, 357

Creator:Biliarsky, Ivan

Date:2024.03.06 | 2023.12.06

Type:image

МАЯ ПЕТРОВА-ТАНЕВА, Помощница на царете: св. императрица Теофана в южнославянската традиция [Maja Petrova-Taneva, Supporter to the Tsars: Saint Empress Theophano in the South Slavic Tradition], Издателски център Боян Пенев, София 2018, pp. 335.

Creator:Biliarsky, Ivan

Date:2021.08.27 | 2020.12.23

Type:image

Book Reviews: V. Tăpkova-Zaimova, A. Miltenova, Historical and Apocalyptic Literature in Byzantium and Medieval Bulgaria, East-West Publishers, Sofia 2011, pp. 605.

Creator:Biliarsky, Ivan

Date:2014.04.24 | 2012

Type:other

Able-bodied vs. disabled people – infrahumanisation of students with disabilities (a case study)1

Creator:Bełza-Gajdzica, Magdalena

Date:2020.06.30

Type:text

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

Object's details: Marriage and Power (Images of Authority)

Description

Similar objects