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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-c273848204ff45d8af53b5b51bacbb7e2025-08-02T18:39:29Zdeu“George Enescu” National University of Arts of IașiAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art2392-862X2392-94722016-11-01III2126136An Aspect of the Symbolism of the Political Power during the Middle Ages: the AnointmentRaluca Minea0Assist. Prof. „George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași, România.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.http://anastasis-review.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/III-2-Raluca-Minea-BDT.pdfanointmentcoronationpowersovereign |
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