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The King's Body - Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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The King's Body - Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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The King's Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals,
and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred
the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using
contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti
reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings'
burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political
objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next
generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their
predecessor's memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity
and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by
conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of
deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts
to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a
Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they
justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession
was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king's
body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.
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