>I am preparing a thesis on the Coronation of Charlemagne, but the
>literature I have encountered so far mention this only in a brief and
>general manner. While these books considers the coronation to have been a
>mere strategic military and political move from Leo III, I hope to find
>literature that deals with the coronation from a more *theological* point
>of view, seeing it as a *religious* act, not military or political. If
>someone could give me some relevant titles, and maybe information on where
>to find out about recent research and theories, I would be most grateful.
>
>
>Thomas Tsigaridas
>University of Oslo
a few additional sources that may be of use:
Janos Bak, ed., Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual,
Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California Press, 1990.
Karl der Grosse. Lebenswerk und Nachleben, 4 vols, edited by Wolfgang
Braunfels, Dusseldorf: Verlag L. Schwann, 1965-67.
Robert Folz, Les saints rois du moyen age en occident (VIe-XIIIe siecles),
(subsidia Hagiographica, 68), Brussells: Societe des Bollandistes, 1984.
(though later than Charlemagne) for comparison, you might wish to examine:
Erik Fugedi, "Coronations in Medieval Hungary", Studies in Medieval and
Renaissance History, n.s. III (XIII), 1980, 159-189.
(reprinted in: Erik Fugedi, Kings, Bishops, Nobles and Burghers in Medieval
Hungary, edited by Janos M. Bak, London: Variorum Reprints, 1986, I,
159-189.)
-S. Montgomery
University of Iowa
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