Medieval self-coronations : the history and symbolism of a ritual / Jaume Aurell. [electronic resour...
Medieval self-coronations : the history and symbolism of a ritual / Jaume Aurell. [electronic resour...
Medieval self-coronations : the history and symbolism of a ritual / Jaume Aurell. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Self-coronation as ritual -- Consecration without mediation in antiquity -- The hand of God -- Symbolic self-coronations in Byzantium -- The sacralisation of Carolingian accessions -- Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian Christocentrism -- Roger II of Sicily : imagining self-coronation -- Frederick II of German...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned...
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Medieval self-coronations : the history and symbolism of a ritual / Jaume Aurell. [electronic resource]
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 May 2020).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74VKaz0XKNQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0XKNQX
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1-108-87927-6
1-108-88933-6
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394/.4
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991024402516202626
