Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)
Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Lance McLain wrote: >> Perhaps it goes back to the divine right of Kings? Rulers being >> coronated by the Pope and Bishops and what not. > > The first king to be crowned by the Pope was Charlemagne, on > Christmas Day 800 or something like that, yes? Weren't the East Roman kings coronated by the bishops in Constantinople? I know there was the placing of the crown which symbolized that divine authority came directly from God. There was also annointings and such. I believe this happened hundreds of years before Charlemagne. regards, -Lance -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot