The King's Body
by R. Burr Litchfield /
2001 / English / PDF
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This text offers an up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the culture of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric.
