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| Bibliography | [xi] |
| CHAP. | | |
| I. | Early conceptions of Kingship, and religious rites in connection with a King’s accession | [1] |
| II. | Ceremonies in connection with the Inauguration of a Roman Emperor in pre-Christian times. The Origin of the Christian Coronation Rite in the fifth century. The Byzantine Rite of the tenth century and its developements. The Coronation of a Russian Czar. The Abyssinian Rite | [7] |
| III. | The Origin of the Rite in the West. A twofold source. The seventh-century Rite of the Consecration of a King in Spain, and the Imperial Rite of the Holy Roman Empire | [32] |
| IV. | The Western Imperial Rite of the Coronation of an Emperor at Rome. The accounts of the Coronation of Charlemagne. The earliest forms and their later developements | [37] |
| V. | The Coronation of a King. The Anglo-Saxon Consecration. The Rite of the so-called Pontifical of Egbert, and the developement of the English Rite | [56] |
| VI. | The French Rite and its developements. The Coronation of Napoleon | [91] |
| VII. | The Roman Rite of the Coronation of a King and its developements | [109] |
| VIII. | The Rite of Milan and its developements | [114] |
| IX. | The German Rite | [120] |
| X. | The Hungarian Rite | [126] |
| XI. | The early accounts of the Rite of the Consecration of a King in Visigothic Spain. The Rites of Aragon and Navarre | [128] |
| XII. | Other countries. Protestant Rites. Scotland. Bohemia. The Prussian Rite of 1701. Denmark. Sweden. Norway | [137] |
| XIII. | The Papal Coronation | [159] |
| XIV. | The Inter-relation of the different Rites | [165] |
| XV. | The Unction, the Vestments, and the Regalia | [177] |
| XVI. | The Significance of the Rite | [188] |
| General Index | [200] |
| Index of Forms | [203] |