The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.

Papers originally presented at a conference held Fabruary 1985 in Toronto.

The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch's reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in

In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, chapter authors assert the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashio

An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.