The King and the Crown of Thorns : : Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France.

In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of...

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Place / Publishing House:Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (576 pages)
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