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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.
The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world. The
contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and
vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety
of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture
and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of
Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fecamp in early Normandy;
political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin
courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's
motivation for his Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal
scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law
texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the
south-western Norman dioceses. Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre
Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara
Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen,
Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert
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. 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.
JOHANNA DALE is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the
Department of History at University College London.
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