Open AccessA cracked mirror? - forming the ideal ruler in Epirus and Nicaea in the first half of the 13th century
Author(s) -
Milan Vukašinović
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta/zbornik radova vizantološkog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0917
pISSN - 0584-9888
DOI - 10.2298/zrvi1552313v
Subject(s) - ruler , byzantine architecture , emperor , ideal (ethics) , empire , successor cardinal , negotiation , ancient history , art , order (exchange) , history , transformation (genetics) , literature , law , political science , mathematics , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , gene , economics
During the first half of the 13th century both Byzantine Empire and the image of its ideal ruler had to undergo a transformation. By applying mostly the narratological analysis to the parenetic texts written in the two successor states of the Empire, the paper sheds light on the dynamic ‘negotiations’ within the Roman elites of the place that the Emperor should have inside the symbolic order, and suggests a possible model of approach to other Byzantine texts and periods. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015