Mirko VAGNONI

The Sacrality of Queen in the Norman Sicily. The pattern of Ordo coronationis

La sacralità della regina nella Sicilia normanna. Il caso dell’Ordo coronationis

Published in Mulier aut Femina. Idealism or reality of women in the Middle Ages

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Generally historians have given little attention to the sacrality of the Norman queens of Sicily. Certainly, there are few sources on this subject but this paper wants to study this topic analysing a very important text for the representation of power: the Ordo coronationis written in the Norman Sicily and that describes the ritual for the coronation of a queen.