The Royal Institution during the Liturgy in Medieval Bulgaria (original) (raw)
The development of the liturgical practice during the different periods of the Church history has been connected with the ruler's institution and in particular-with the participation of the emperor in the very ritual. As early as the 6 th century, the Byzantine rite became "imperial", and as its symbol it appeared the "St. Sophia", built by Justinian (527-565 A.D.). All mentioned from this article, represents the role which the ruler's institution had in the liturgy of the Eastern Church and the importance which had been given to the emperor's participation in the liturgical action. The changes, which occurred in the church ritual during the Middle Ages, didn't affect essentially the ruler's role, but only changed the scale and the duration of his participation, in conformity with the overall minimization and concentration of the action into the new spatial dimensions of crucidomed temple. The resemblance in the ruler's role in the liturgical practice and the parallels in the peculiarities of the architectural environment confirm the direct succession of mystics and liturgical ordinance from the Byzantine Church to the Bulgarian Church, which proofs the importance of Constantinople for the cultural and religious development of the Mediaeval Bulgarian state.
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