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This article focuses on the practice of self-coronation among medieval Iberian Castilian kings and its religious, political, and ideological implications. The article takes Alfonso XI of Castile self-coronation (1332) as a central event, and establishes a conceptual genealogy, significance, and relevance of this self-coronation, taking Visigothic, Asturian, Leonese, and Castilian chronicles as a main source, and applying political theology as a methodology. The gesture of self-coronation has an evident transgressive connotation which deserves particular attention, and could throw some light upon the traditional debate on the supposed "un-sacred" kingship of Castilian kings.

Introduction : The "idol" ceremony of coronation -- Why crown a king? : Henry VIII and the medieval coronation -- "Come my love thou shalbe crowned": the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation -- "But a ceremony" : -- Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan -- "He hath sent marye our soveraigne and quene" : England's first queen and respublica -- "A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle" : Representing Elizabeth I's coronation -- Epilogue: "presume not that I am the thing I was"

This article considers the meaning & symbolism of the UK coronation service. After surveying the impact of recent royal ritual, it explores the detailed structure of the coronation service & makes & proposes a number of alterations & reforms in the shape & structure of the next coronation. It also advocates the introduction of a new ceremony of enthronement & homage, separate & discrete from the coronation, & to be held outside London. Adapted from the source document.

Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined. Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered.