Jaume Aurell is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Navarra, Spain. His previous publications include Authoring the Past (2012), Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies (2015) and, as editor, Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century (2017).
Introduction
1. Self-coronation as ritual
I. Heritage
2. Consecration without mediation in antiquity
3. The hand of God
4. Symbolic self-coronations in Byzantium
5. The sacralisation of Carolingian accessions
6. Anglo-Saxon and Ottonian christocentrism
II. Infamy
7. Roger II of Sicily: Imagining self-coronation
8. Frederick II of Germany: desacralising rituals
III. Convention
9. Alfonso XI of Castile: From self-knighting to self-crowning
10. Peter IV of Aragon's self-coronation: A conventionalization program
11. Charles III of Navarra: juridical implications of self-coronations
12. Early modern dramatization: the road to Napoleon
Conclusion.
