Modèles de pouvoir dans les rites royaux en France - article ; n°3 ; vol.41, pg 579-599

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1986 - Volume 41 - Numéro 3 - Pages 579-599
Power Models in French Royal Rituals. R. E. Giesey.
Four important French royal (or state) ceremonies can be correlated—due to their constitutional meanings—with four successive models of leadership: coronations can be correlated with religious kingship (predominant up until the 13th century), funerals with legal kingship (in the 15th and early 16th centuries), entrances with humanistic kingship (in the 16th century) and the lit de justice with absolutist kingship (in the 17th century). These were all great public events which strengthened the relationship between ruler and ruled, contrasting with ritualized court life conducted out of the public eye, mostly at Versailles, which began with Louis the Fourteenth.
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