Royal Divine Coronation Iconography in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean Area

• Other Authors: Vagnoni, Mirko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: The arts; History of art / art & design styles; royal divine coronation; royal iconography; royal sacrality; power-religion relationship; medieval kingship; angelology; angels; Angelus Domini; angelic coronation; St Stephen I of Hungary; St Ladislaus I of Hungary; Matthias Corvinus; Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV; Hartvik Legend; Luigi Lippomano; apocalyptic visions; prophetism; messianism; Crown of Aragon; Germanias revolt; coronation; laicization; sacralization; rex et sacerdos; iconography; Portuguese kings; tomb sculpture; statues; regaliae; cathedral; Abbey of Saint-Denis; festival crowing; Abbot Suger (1122-1151); consecration
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In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate about one of the most fascinating and studied iconographic themes of the Middle Ages: the royal divine coronation. Indeed, in the specific case of some Ottonian and Salian illuminations, it has been pr...