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

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 A

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