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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. --- Rites et cérémonies

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

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Traditionally the study of early medieval burial practices in England has focused on the furnished burials of the early Anglo-Saxon period with those of the later centuries perceived as uniform and therefore uninteresting. The last decade has seen the publication of many important cemeteries and synthetic works demonstrating that such a simplistic view of later Anglo-Saxon burial is no longer tenable. The reality is rather more complex, with social and political perspectives influencing both the location and mode of burial in this period.

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