{"product_id":"medieval-self-coronations-the-history-and-symbolism-of-a-ritual-paperback-softback-9781108794176","title":"Medieval Self-Coronations; The History and Symbolism of a Ritual (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108794176","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedieval Self-Coronations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe History and Symbolism of a Ritual\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJaume Aurell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108794176, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e356 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Aurell offers us a deeply researched, comparative, and chronological survey of the ideas, rituals, imageries, and ideologies around the practices of royal accession through late antiquity and the long Middle Ages. … One of this book's great strengths is its mastery and synthesis of an extraordinarily large and complex scholarly literature of several centuries.'  M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBased 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 as has been imagined.  Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Self-coronation as ritual\u003cbr\u003e I. Heritage\u003cbr\u003e 2. Consecration without mediation in antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 3. The hand of God\u003cbr\u003e 4. Symbolic self-coronations in Byzantium\u003cbr\u003e 5. The sacralisation of Carolingian accessions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian christocentrism\u003cbr\u003e II. Infamy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Roger II of Sicily: Imagining self-coronation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Frederick II of Germany: desacralising rituals\u003cbr\u003e III. Convention\u003cbr\u003e 9. Alfonso XI of Castile: From self-knighting to self-crowning\u003cbr\u003e 10. Peter IV of Aragon's self-coronation: A conventionalization program\u003cbr\u003e 11. Charles III of Navarra: juridical implications of self-coronations\u003cbr\u003e 12. Early modern dramatization: the road to Napoleon\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e], Genealogy, heraldry, names \u0026amp; honours [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Genealogy, heraldry, names \u0026amp; honours\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Genealogy,%20heraldry,%20names%20\u0026amp;%20honours%20%5BHBTG%5D%22\"\u003eHBTG\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52174414086424,"sku":"9781108794176","price":24.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108794176i.jpg?v=1781174067","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/medieval-self-coronations-the-history-and-symbolism-of-a-ritual-paperback-softback-9781108794176","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}