Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century

Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-903153-98-7
Verlag: York Medieval Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dale, Johanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Liturgical Texts: The Spoken Word and Song
Liturgical Ritual: Rubrication and Regalia
Who and Where? Actors, Location and Legitimacy
What and When? Consecration and the Liturgical Calendar
Royal Titles, Anniversaries and their Meaning: The Charter Evidence
Seal Impressions and Christomimetic Kingship
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Editions and Manuscripts of the Selected Ordines
Appendix 2: Prayer Formulae Incipits
Appendix 3: Tables of Ritual Elements in the Ordines
Appendix 4: Brief Descriptions of Royal and Imperial Seals and Bullae
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dale, Johanna
JOHANNA DALE is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at University College London.