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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496152803321

Titolo

Coronations : medieval and early modern monarchic ritual / / edited by János M. Bak [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c1990

ISBN

0-585-08232-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 257 p. ) : ill. ;

Altri autori (Persone)

BakJános M

Disciplina

394/.4

Soggetti

Coronations - Europe

Coronations - Congresses - Europe

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Manners & Customs

Europe Social life and customs To 1500 Congresses

Europe Social life and customs 16th century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at a conference held February 1985 in Toronto.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : coronation studies : past, present, and future / J.M. Bak -- Hincmar of Reims on king-making : the evidence of the Annals of St. Bertin / J.L. Nelson -- Inaugural aspects of French royal ceremonials / R.E. Giesey -- A coronation program for the age of Saint Louis : the ordo of 1250 / J. Le Goff -- The manuscript of the ordo of 1250 and its illuminations / J.-C. Bonne -- Copies in context : the coronation of Charles V in his Grandes Chroniques de France / A.D. Hedeman -- The medieval entry ceremony at Paris / L.M. Bryant -- A note on Viking age inaugurations / E. Vestergaard -- Coronations and coronation ordines in medieval Scandinavia / E. Hoffmann -- Gesture in the coronation ceremonies of medieval Poland / A. Gieysztor -- The ordo for the coronation of Roger II of Sicily : an example of dating by internal evidence / R. Elze -- Papal coronations in Avignon / B. Schimmelpfennig.

The origins and descent of the fourth recension of the English coronation / A. Hughes -- "The wonderful spectacle" : the civic



progress of Elizabeth I and the troublesome coronation / R.C. McCoy -- "Continuity" versus "change" : historians and English coronations of the medieval and early modern periods / D. Sturdy.