Coronation Rites :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

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I.	Early conceptions of Kingship, and religious rites in connection with a King’s accession	1
II.	Ceremonies in connection with the Inauguration of a Roman Emperor in pre-Christian times. The Origin of the Christian Coronation Rite in the fifth century. The Byzantine Rite of the tenth century and its developements. The Coronation of a Russian Czar. The Abyssinian Rite	7
III.	The Origin of the Rite in the West. A twofold source. The seventh-century Rite of the Consecration of a King in Spain, and the Imperial Rite of the Holy Roman Empire	32
IV.	The Western Imperial Rite of the Coronation of an Emperor at Rome. The accounts of the Coronation of Charlemagne. The earliest forms and their later developements	37
V.	The Coronation of a King. The Anglo-Saxon Consecration. The Rite of the so-called Pontifical of Egbert, and the developement of the English Rite	56
VI.	The French Rite and its developements. The Coronation of Napoleon	91
VII.	The Roman Rite of the Coronation of a King and its developements	109
VIII.	The Rite of Milan and its developements	114
IX.	The German Rite	120
X.	The Hungarian Rite	126
XI.	The early accounts of the Rite of the Consecration of a King in Visigothic Spain. The Rites of Aragon and Navarre	128
XII.	Other countries. Protestant Rites. Scotland. Bohemia. The Prussian Rite of 1701. Denmark. Sweden. Norway	137
XIII.	The Papal Coronation	159
XIV.	The Inter-relation of the different Rites	165
XV.	The Unction, the Vestments, and the Regalia	177
XVI.	The Significance of the Rite	188
General Index		200
Index of Forms		203

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