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Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century - Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (Paperback)
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Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century - Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire (Paperback)
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Offers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship,
showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the
twelfth century and onward. 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. Through a groundbreaking
comparative approach and an in-depth engagement with the
historiographical traditions of the three realms, this book
challenges the paradigm of the desacralisation of kingship and
demonstrates the continued relevance of liturgical ceremonial,
particularly at the moment of a king's accession to power. In
integrating the study of male and female rites and by bringing
together multiple source types, including liturgical texts,
historical narratives, charter evidence and material culture, the
author demonstrates that the resonances of liturgical ceremonial,
and the biblical models for kingship and queenship it encompassed,
continued to shape concepts of rulership in the high Middle Ages.
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