Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 2 : Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages

The __ordines coronationis__ are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for the study of kingship, queenship, and the evolution of political institutions. Complete in two volumes, Richard A. Jackson's is the first full edition of these texts, including all the __ordines__ from the early thirteenth century through the end of the fifteenth century, a period during which the texts shift from Latin to the vernacular, and the institutions of kingship become distinctively French. Contents 7 Volume II 9 Preface 9 Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Works 11 Introduction to Volume II 13 Texts of the Ordines 17 Ordo 19 XXA. Ordo of Reims — ca. 1230 19 XXB-C. French Translations of Ordo of Reims — ca. 1300–1320, 1512 34 XXI. Ordo of 1250 — 1240–1250 69 XXII A. Last Capetian Ordo — ca. 1250–1270 95 XXIIB-C. French Translations of Last Capetian Ordo — ca. 1350, 1555–66 147 XXIII. Ordo of Charles V — 1364 182 XXIV. Ordo of Louis XI — 1461 and 1478 251 XXV. Ordo of Charles VIII — 1484 283 Appendices 346 I. Spelling Variants Not Retained in Ordo XXB 346 II. Synoptic Table of Ordines XXII–XXV 349 III. Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume I 353 Works Cited 356 Index of Formulas 380 Index of Bible Quotations and References 390 Index of Manuscripts 392 Plates 405 General Index 443 A 443 B 443 C 444 D 445 E 445 F 445 G 445 H 445 J 445 K 446 L 446 M 446 N 447 O 447 P 447 Q 448 R 448 S 448 T 449 V 449 W 449 Z 449 The ordines coronationis are essentially the scripts for the coronation of Frankish and French sovereigns. Combining detailed religious, ceremonial, and political material, they are an extraordinarily important source for the study of individual rulers or dynasties, as well as for the study of kingship, queenship, and the evolution of political institutions. Complete in two volumes, Richard A. Jackson's is the first full edition of these texts, including all the ordines from the early thirteenth century through the end of the fifteenth century, a period during which the texts shift from Latin to the vernacular, and the institutions of kingship become distinctively French.