29 juillet 2019
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godsey, « Coronations and composite states: the Austrian-Habsburg case », Die Habsburgermonarchie, ID : 10.58079/pevj
by William D. Godsey To mark the 65th anniversary of her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II has given a rare interview in which she talked about the event from the extraordinary perspective of the main participant. Her delightful remark that crowns “are quite important things” betrayed intimate familiarity with the meaning of the ceremonial trappings associated with an ancient tradition that in most places has now died out. Future scholars of twentieth-century monarchy and ritual have thus ...