TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerzy Pysiak
AU  - Jan Burzyński
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631840597
TI  - The King and the Crown of Thorns
T2  - Kingship and the Cult of Relics in Capetian France
DO  - 10.3726/b17831
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114364
N2  - In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis’s translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.
KW  - Louis IX of France (Saint Louis), Charlemagne, Saint-Denis Abbey, mediaeval hagiography, mediaeval christianity, mediaeval Europe
LA  - English
ER  -