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- ISBN 9783631832646
- Weight: 918g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis’s reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis’s translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.
Jerzy Pysiak
1999: PhD University of Warsaw; 2013: Habilitation Degree at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw.
1999–2020: Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, UW, from 2020 at the Faculty of Arts and Culture, UW.
Guest Professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université de Nantes; Comenius Universisty, Bratislava.
