L' empereur et le moine: recherches sur les relations entre le pouvoir impérial et les monastères à Byzance, du IXe siècle à 1204

Starting from the IXth century, the imperial power played in Byzantium a significant role in the emergence and enrichment of monasteries, by providing several fiscal privileges and by giving constant protection against the encroachments of the fiscal and the episcopal administration. According to th...

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1. Verfasser: Benoit-Meggenis, Rosa (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:French
Veröffentlicht: Lyon Université Lumière Lyon 2 2010
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Zusammenfassung:Starting from the IXth century, the imperial power played in Byzantium a significant role in the emergence and enrichment of monasteries, by providing several fiscal privileges and by giving constant protection against the encroachments of the fiscal and the episcopal administration. According to the literature, the emperor obeyed to interests superior to those of the fiscal administration, and the foundation or the protection of monasteries was due to spiritual, ideological and political concerns. The imperial monasteries, in particular, were subject to restrictive obligations which were sometimes the private rights of the emperor, such as the obligation to welcome the members of the imperial family, and other times his kingly rights ; these monasteries served as political prisons for the ones against the emperor, sometimes for the dethroned emperors and their closed ones, and they were available to the sovereign who could give them to his followers.The emphasis made by historians to underline the friendship of the emperors towards the monks proceed from their will to confirm the legitimacy of the power of these sovereigns, despite their mistakes or their decline, in order to maintain the continuation of the imperial authority. If the legitimacy of the sovereign could follow several routes in Byzantium and get used to the violence, it could not do without the divine consent. The monks, close to God thanks to their virtues and intercessors privileged of men, were definitely the best ones to guarantee this legitimacy. The idea of the superiority of the monastic dignity, developed by the monastic literature and the Lives of the saints, seems to have found an echo in the narrative sources whose recites have contributed to the elaboration of a new ideological model, that of a basileia reinforced by monastic values
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