A New Type of Royal Consecration. The King’s Intellectual Conversion in the Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V.
The Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage Roy Charles V, written in 1404, shows the absence of the anointing as a necessary element to legitimate the French monarchy. While the figure of the anointed king is silenced, we see, on the contrary, the strong emergence of the...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/7572 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=moderna&d=7572_oai |
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| Sumario: | The Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage Roy Charles V, written in 1404, shows the absence of the anointing as a necessary element to legitimate the French monarchy. While the figure of the anointed king is silenced, we see, on the contrary, the strong emergence of the figure of the crowned king. In doing so, the writer alters the hierarchy of the royal consecration orders by reducing the complex ceremony of consecration to the coronation rite. Curiously, within the five chapters dedicated by the author to describe the transition from the youth to the maturity of the king, the coronation is taken as part of the natural cycle of the life of men, according to the medieval Aristotelian tradition. However, the question arises as to whether the insertion of the consecration into the age- issue can be considered as a mere coincidence, or a simple question of chronology. The absence of sacred attributes of royalty typical from monarchical legends, as well as the omission of ecclesiastical mediations, allow us to suppose that the consecration proposed by the author is of a different kind than those rites of passage that, through anointing, assimilated the monarch with the figure of rex et sacerdos. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the meaning of this new type of consecration and the role it plays in the political theory of the writer outlined in the Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage Roy Charles V. |
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