medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
While exploring the byways of the coronation liturgy, I came across the
following which, while not totally accurate, is too good not to share:
"At his coronation in Rheims Cathedral in 1825, Charles X was
consecrated King of France according to a rite originally devised by St
Dunstan for Edgar, King of the English, in 973. It must have been a
perplexing ceremony. In the dense verbiage of that ancient liturgy, the
last of the Bourbons was enjoined never to abandon his loyal subjects in
Mercia and Northumbria.
We do not know how he received this baffling instruction. If he noted it
at all, he may have accepted it as just one other piece of high-flown
eccclesiastical buffoonery. If it was all right by the Archbishop of
Rheims, then who was he to question it?"
John Briggs
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