Description: The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: 'Overall, this wide-ranging, well-founded, and highly readable study by Jaume Aurell ... offers a very valuable contribution to medieval ritual studies and rulership research in a comparative perspective.' Tanja Skambraks, Historische Zeitschrift