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

Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth c

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

Range presents an in-depth study of the music within the ceremonial at British coronations from 1603 to the present.