The King's Body
Subtitle: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Contributors: R. Burr Litchfield (Translator)
Edition: Rev Upd edition
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780271021027
Subjects: Customs; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Rank & titles; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Europe - General; Political History; Medieval; Christianity; Divine right of kings; Kings and rulers; Kings and rulers, Medieval; Religious aspects
Description: "The King's Body offers an overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric.

His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI."--BOOK JACKET.