This lecture will explore the ways the Abbey’s outstanding medieval art and architecture promoted authority and an idea of order, as well as using prestigious models in France and Italy.
Rituals of royal burial and inauguration made a profound impact on Westminster Abbey, a church built deliberately to house all these functions. Power in all its forms seeks continuity and legitimacy, and this was especially true of the Middle Ages when power was sustained by religious belief and ritual. Professor Paul Binski: Westminster Abbey and the Coronation: Ritual and Order in the Middle Ages Wednesday 10th May 6.00PM BSTĪs the United Kingdom celebrates the coronation of a new monarch, we are delighted to welcome distinguished historian Professor Paul Binski as our guest speaker, for a special lecture dedicated to the history of rite and ritual in Westminster Abbey.
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