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

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

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