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Record Nr.

UNINA9910619476003321

Autore

Burzynski Jan

Titolo

The King and the Crown of Thorns : Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2021

Frankfurt a.M. : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

3-631-84060-8

3-631-84059-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (576 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

TwardoSylwia

PysiakJerzy

Soggetti

Social & cultural history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis’s translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.