The Donation of Zeno: St. Barnabas and the Modern History of the Cypriot Archbishop's Regalia Privileges

Modern church historians have roundly accepted the ancient pedigree of imperial regalia privileges exercised by the archbishops of Cyprus, yet new research has shown that their origins are actually to be found in the mid-sixteenth century and within a decidedly western intellectual and ecclesial orb...

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1. VerfasserIn: Huffman, Joseph P. 1959- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Church history
Jahr: 2015, Band: 84, Heft: 4, Seiten: 713-745
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Barnabas ca. 1./2. Jh. / Osmanisches Reich / Zypern / Erzbischof / Urkunde
IxTheo Notationen:CG Christentum und Politik
KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit
KBK Osteuropa
KCD Hagiographie; Heilige
SE Orthodoxes Kirchenrecht
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Zusammenfassung:Modern church historians have roundly accepted the ancient pedigree of imperial regalia privileges exercised by the archbishops of Cyprus, yet new research has shown that their origins are actually to be found in the mid-sixteenth century and within a decidedly western intellectual and ecclesial orbit. This article builds on such findings by documenting the modern history of these privileges and their relationship to the emerging political role of the archbishops of Cyprus as ethnarchs as well as archbishops of the Cypriot community under both Ottoman and British empires. Travelling across the boundaries of western and non-western cultures and employing a rich interdisciplinary array of evidence (chronicles, liturgy and liturgical vestments, hagiography, iconography, insignia, painting, cartography, diplomacy, and travel literature), this article presents a coherent reconstruction of the imperial regalia tradition's modern historical evolution and its profound impact on modern Cypriot church history. This study integrates the often compartmentalized English, French, Italian, German, and Greek scholarship of many subfields, producing a new holistic understanding of how the archbishop's ethnarchic aspirations could produce a spiritual culture in which St. Barnabas, the island's founding patron saint and once famous apostolic reconciler, became transformed into an ethnarchic national patriot and defender against foreign conquerors.
ISSN:1755-2613
Enthält:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S000964071500092X