The Drama of Coronation : Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England (Paperback)

Introduction: The 'idol' ceremony of coronation; 1. Why crown a King?: Henry VIII and the medieval coronation; 2. 'Come my love thou shalbe crowned': the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation; 3. 'But a ceremony': Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan; 4. 'He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene': England's first Queen and Respublica; 5. 'A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle': representing Elizabeth I's coronation; Epilogue: 'Presume not that I am the thing I was'.