Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Christian Empire: The image of God upon earth
- 2 The Viceroy of God: The plenitude of Imperial power
- 3 The battle over images: The challenge of popular belief
- 4 The working compromise: The limits of Imperial control
- 5 The monks and the people: The opposition to the palace and the hierarchy
- 6 Decline and fall: The end of the Kingdom of God on earth
- Notes
- Index
Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Christian Empire: The image of God upon earth
- 2 The Viceroy of God: The plenitude of Imperial power
- 3 The battle over images: The challenge of popular belief
- 4 The working compromise: The limits of Imperial control
- 5 The monks and the people: The opposition to the palace and the hierarchy
- 6 Decline and fall: The end of the Kingdom of God on earth
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Byzantine TheocracyThe Weil Lectures, Cincinatti, pp. 189 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977