Medieval Self-Coronations: The History and Symbolism of a Ritual

by Jaume Aurell

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 by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108840248
• ISBN13: 9781108840248
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"