‘The Site of King-Making and Consecration’: Westminster Abbey and the Crown in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Emma Mason
‘From the era of its first foundation, this has been venue for royal consecration, burial place kings, and repository insignia, deservedly named from ancient times as (spiritual) head England diadem realm.’ This claim, made on behalf Westminster Abbey by fifteenth-century monk John Flete, is examined here with reference to history between reign Edward Confessor that John.
Studies in church history. Subsidia