A Comparative Study on the Inauguration — Coronation Ceremonies of Gaelic Ireland and the Byzantine Empire —
SangDong Lee|Jian Yang
This study examines the range of religious, cultural, and political circumstances that influenced historical shaping inauguration/ coronation ceremonies in different medieval societies. After Carolingian dynasty Frankish Kingdom mid-eighth century, so-called Latin-Catholic tradition heavily inauguration/coronation ceremony its western Europe. However, forms ceremonial traditions were structured embraced by inhabitants outside world. To investigate this often overlooked issue further, Gaelic Irish inauguration Byzantine Empire. In latter world, Byzantium still retained upheld traditional identity as cultural successor ancient Roman Empire Eastern Orthodox faith, not Catholicism. Thus, Ireland kept their pagan or Greco-Roman past; other words, they stood on margins mainstream hemisphere European analyzes these marginalized societies’ development embedded symbolic messages represent landscape home society.
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