This original and comprehensive study of the practice of royal Self-Coronations from late antiquity to the present exposes as myth the idea that Napoleon was the first to perform the act of self-coronation, vividly demonstrating that Self-Coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined..
This original and comprehensive study of the practice of royal Self-Coronations from late antiquity to the present exposes as myth the idea that Napoleon was the first to perform the act of self-coronation, vividly demonstrating that Self-Coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined.