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Anglo-Saxons --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Cemeteries --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Tombs --- England --- Antiquities

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Christian saints --- Relics --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Liminality --- Liminality --- Cult --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined. Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered.

Coronations --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Couronnements --- Rites et cérémonies --- History. --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Medieval rites and ceremonies --- Civilization, Medieval --- Crowning of sovereigns --- Kings and rulers --- Pageants --- Rites and ceremonies --- Crowns --- History --- Coronation --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval.

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"Mobile Saints examines the central medieval (ca. 950-1150 CE) practice of removing saints' relics from rural monasteries in order to take them on out-and-back journeys, particularly within northern France and the Low Countries. Though the permanent displacements of relics-translations-have long been understood as politically and culturally significant activities, these temporary circulations have received relatively little attention. Yet the act of taking a medieval relic from its "home," even for a short time, had the power to transform the object, the people it encountered, and the landscape it travelled through. Using hagiographical and liturgical texts, this study reveals both the opportunities and tensions associated with these movements: circulating relics extended the power of the saint into the wider world, but could also provoke public displays of competition, mockery, and resistance. By contextualizing these effects within the discourses and practices that surrounded traveling relics, Mobile Saints emphasizes the complexities of the central medieval cult of relics and its participants, while speaking to broader questions about the role of movement in negotiating the relationships between sacred objects, space, and people"--

Christian saints --- Relics --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval. --- Liminality --- Relics. --- Cult --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Cult. --- Europe. --- Saints --- Canonization --- Exhibitions

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Anglo-Saxons --- Burial. --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval. --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Antiquities. --- To 1066. --- England. --- Great Britain.