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Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire

Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire

Dale, Johanna

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1903153840
ISBN13: 9781903153840
Publisher: York Medieval Pr
Published: Feb 15 2019
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and onward.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Whitfield Prize

The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunction with the ecclesiastical reform movement, has been seen as sounding the death knell for sacral kingship. Increasingly concerned with bureaucracy and the law, monarchs supposedly paid only lip service to the idea that they ruled in the image of God and the Old Testament rulers of Israel. The liturgical ceremony through which this typology was communicated, inauguration, had become a relic from a bygone age; it remained significant, but for its legally constitutive nature rather than for its liturgical content.

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