Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. PREFACE VII
4. Introduction Coronation Studies—Past, Present, and Future 1
5. ONE Hincmar of Reims on King-making: The Evidence of the Annals of St. Bertin, 861-882 16
6. TWO Inaugural Aspects of French Royal Ceremonials 35
7. THREE A Coronation Program for the Age of Saint Louis: The Ordo of 1250 46
8. FIVE Copies in Context: The Coronation of Charles V in His Grandes Chroniques de France 72
9. six The Medieval Entry Ceremony at Paris 88
10. SEVEN A Note on Viking Age Inaugurations 119
11. EIGHT Coronation and Coronation Ordines in Medieval Scandinavia 125
12. NINE Gesture in the Coronation Ceremonies of Medieval Poland 152
13. TEN The Ordo for the Coronation of King Roger II of Sicily: An Example of Dating from Internal Evidence 165
14. ELEVEN Papal Coronations in Avignon 179
15. TWELVE The Origins and Descent of the Fourth Recension of the English Coronation 197
16. THIRTEEN "The Wonderfull Spectacle" The Civic Progress of Elizabeth I and the Troublesome Coronation 217
17. FOURTEEN "Continuity" versus "Change": Historians and English Coronations of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods 228
18. CONTRIBUTORS 247
19. GENERAL INDEX 249
20. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 257