Gilbert Dagron was a historian of Byzantium, and this Cambridge University Press book is his scholarly study of the Byzantine emperor's religious and quasi-priestly role, examining how imperial authority and ecclesiastical authority overlapped and were distinguished across Byzantine history. Its strength is close engagement with Byzantine legal, liturgical and theological sources to trace a genuinely contested question, how far an emperor's authority extended into properly priestly territory, rather than assuming a simple caesaropapist model. Its limit is that it is a study of the imperial office's religious dimension specifically across a long historical span, so a claim about one particular emperor's individual actions or one specific period's church-state conflict is better checked against a source focused on that narrower episode.
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AuthorGilbert Dagron
PublisherCambridge University Press
English translation by Jean Birrell, 2003; the French original was Editions Gallimard, 1996. Publication Year2003
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Reliability Tier1
Gilbert Dagron's scholarly study of the Byzantine emperor's religious and priestly role, from a university press. NotesDagron's study of the Byzantine emperor's religious and priestly role.
Claims Backed By This Source (40 claims)
This source backs 40 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested, 4 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Cities, 9 claims: 3 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Rituals, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Doctrines, 5 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 5 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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