The origins of "theocratic statehood" in the Byzantine Empire
The article is devoted to the origins of the ideas of «theocratic statehood» in the Byzantine Empire. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the study. The article emphasizes that the scientific research of scientists had a common concept - the idea of the divine origin of power. The dominant ideas of political and legal thought of the Byzantine Empire was the idea of the divine origin of both the state and the law.