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The King and the Crown of Thorns : Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burzyński, Jan.
Other Authors: Twardo, Sylwia., Pysiak, Jerzy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Crown of thorns.
Christian art and symbolism.
Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Prehistory of the Translation of the Crown of Thorns to France: Saint-Denis Abbey and the Carolingian Legend of the Translation of the Holy Crown of Thorns
  • Chapter 1. The Founding Narratives on the Translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to the Kingdom of the Franks
  • 1. Descriptio qualiter Karolus Magnus Clavum et Coronam a Constantinopoli Aquisgrani detulerit qualiterque Karolus Calvus haec ad Sanctum Dionysium retulerit
  • The Content and Dating of Descriptio 15
  • 2. Sources of Information about Charlemagne's Expedition to the Holy Land 60
  • The Chronicle of Benedict of Sant' Andrea del Monte Soratte 81
  • Relics from Charroux and Reichenau
  • Liber de constitutione Karrofensis cenobii
  • Libellus de translatione sanguinis Domini from the Abbey of Reichenau 125
  • 3. Do the Narrations from Charroux, Monte Soratte, and Reichenau Talk About the Origins of the Cult of Passion Relics in the Abbey of Saint-Denis?
  • Chapter 2. The Reception of Descriptio qualiter Until the Reign of Saint Louis:  Iter Hierosolimitanum Karoli Magni 1
  • 1. Imperial Hagiography:  De sanctitate Karoli Magni 15
  • 2. Vernacular Literature:  Chansons de Geste and the Historical Prose in the Twelfth and the Thirteenth Centuries 28
  • P è lerinage de Charlemagne 31
  • Fierabras
  • Karlamagn ú s saga
  • Chronicles and Gesta 86
  • Gesta episcoporum Mettensium
  • Helinand of Froidmont and Vincent of Beauvais
  • Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle: Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi
  • Descriptio-Turpin by Pierre de Beauvais 115 The Crown of Thorns and the Miraculous Healing of Scrofula during the First Indictum in Aachen 116
  • Chronique des rois de France by the Anonymous of B é thune 132
  • Gui of Bazoches and Alberic of Trois-Fontaines.
  • Chronique rim é e by Philip Mousk è s
  • Les Grandes Chroniques de France by Primat of Saint-Denis 175
  • 3. The Reception of Descriptio qualiter in the Iconography of Capetian Churches
  • Stained Glass in Saint-Denis and Chartres 186
  • The Gravestone Epitaph of Charles the Bald in Saint-Denis
  • Chapter 3. Conclusion
  • 1. The Ideological Meaning of the Historical Myth on Charlemagne's Expedition to Jerusalem and Constantinople from the Eleventh to the First Half of the Thirteenth Century
  • 2. The Translation of the Relics of the Crown of Thorns to the Kingdom of the Franks and the Miraculous Healing of Scrofula
  • Part II. Capetian Politics Towards The Relics, Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries
  • Chapter 1. The Kings of the Franks and Relics in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingians and the Carolingians. The Heritage of the Carolingian Policy of the Cult of Relics in the Holy Empire in the Ottonian and Salian Era 1
  • 1. Introductory remarks: Constantine's Heritage
  • 2. The Cult of Relics under the Merovingians and Early Carolingians
  • 3. Charles the Bald and the Cult of the Relics
  • 4. The Heritage of the Carolingian Cult of Relics in the Ottonian and Salian Empire
  • Chapter 2. Participation of the First Capetians in the Cult of Relics (Tenth to Eleventh Century)
  • 1. The Capetians and Saint Walaric's Prophecy
  • 2. The Cult of Relics during the Reign of Robert the Pious
  • 3. Philip I, the Holy Shroud of the Lord of Compi è gne, and Other Translations during his Reign
  • Chapter 3. Revival of the Royal Cult of Relics in Twelfth-Century France: The Cult of Saints and Relics during the Reigns of Louis VI, Louis VII, and Philip Augustus
  • 1. The Ostensio of the Relics of the Crown of Thorns and the Nail of the True Cross in Saint-Denis.
  • 2. Participation of Kings in Translations or Authentications of Relics during the Reigns of Louis VI and Louis VII (1108-1180)
  • 3. The Public Demonstration of the Relics of Saint Denis in the Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Twelfth Century
  • 4. Miraculous Healings of Kings in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Owed to Saint Denis and His Relics
  • 5. The Translation of the Relics of Saint Denis in Saint-Denis Abbey in 1144
  • 6. Cult of Relics in the Abbey of Saint Denis in the Twelfth Century as a Model for the King of England and the Emperor?
  • 7. The Capetian Monarchy and the Cult of the Relic of the Crown of Thorns and the Relics of Saint Denis in Hagiographic Sources:  Lives of Saint Denis
  • 8. Importance of the Cult of Passion Relics of Saint-Denis from the Early Twelfth century until the First Years of the Reign of Saint Louis
  • The Holy Crown from Saint-Denis Abbey
  • Philip Augustus and the Cult of Relics
  • Part III. Saint Louis and the Cult of Relics
  • Chapter 1. The Translation of the Relics of the Crown of Thorns and Other Passion Relics to Paris in 1239-1242. A Tentative Reconstruction 1 and Ideological Meaning
  • 1. Sources
  • Hagiographic Sources
  • De susceptione Corone Domini of Archbishop Gautier Cornut (1240)
  • G é rard of Saint-Quentin, Translatio Sancte Corone Domini Ihesu Christi (after 1248)
  • Other Hagiographic Sources (till the End of the Thirteenth Century)
  • Chronicles (until the Mid-Fourteenth Century)
  • French Chronicles
  • Foreign Chronicles
  • Other Sources
  • 2. The Historical Context of the Translation
  • Translation of 1239 in the Light of Hagiographic Sources
  • The Circumstances of the Translation of 1239 in the Light of French and Foreign Chronicles
  • 3. Reconstruction of the Translation of the Crown of Thorns in August 1239.
  • 4. Translations of Passion Relics to Paris in 1241-1242. A Tentative Reconstruction
  • 5. The Feast of the Crown of Thorns and Other Festivities in Honour of the Passion Relics Brought by Louis IX
  • Chapter 2. Importance of the Translation of the Crown of Thorns and the Passion Relics and Their Cult for the Royal Ideology of Louis IX and the Capetian Monarchy
  • 1. Narrative Sources
  • 2. The Crown of Thorns as the Holy Crown and the titulus Imperii
  • 3. Selected Liturgical Sources
  • 4. Saint Louis and Other Translations of the Relics in France during His Reign
  • Conclusion.  The Translation and the Cult of the Crown of Thorns during the Reign of Saint Louis against the Backdrop of the Capetian Cult of Relics
  • 1. Saint Louis IX - Rex Imago Christi
  • 2. Saint Louis as the New Charlemagne
  • 3. Sainte-Chapelle in the Times of Saint Louis
  • 4. Translatio Imperii or Translation of Jerusalem?
  • 5. The Capetian Monarchy and the Cult of Relics until the Thirteenth Century
  • SUMMARY
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Index of geographical names
  • Index of names
  • Index of sources
  • Series index.

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