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.
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