Victor Alexandrovich Kovalev assistant professor of Legal theory and law enforcement activities department of Law faculty of Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences (ulitsa Fuchika, dom 15, Russia, 192238)
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Kovalev V. A. Church tradition and Coronations in Medieval England, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2019, vol. 8, pp. 196–215.
doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2019-00011
Language: Russian
The concept of sacred power exists from the early time to contemporary and obviously causes a great influence upon the medieval concept of power. Assumption of the Church domination during the Middle Ages leads criticists to interpretation King’s power rituals as a secondary to the same of Church. So the Church was assumed as a keeper and inspirator of coronation rituals and distributor of symbols and images to it. In the article author argues that investigation of coronation ritual’s practice can create more complex and multi-dimensional view. Even so evident church ritual as an anointment can became a pattern, filled with actual political events, power conceptions and personal qualities of monarch and other senses. The Church remains a distributor of the pattern, but their interpretation reflected a complex game of different social groups with their interests and ideologies.
Key words: medieval monarchy, coronations, rituals of power, cultural anthropology, anthropology of power, Church and King’s power, medieval history of England
URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/kovalev-2019-en/
