L’incoronazione nella rappresentazione letteraria di Pietro da Eboli: legittimazione e delegittimazione del sovrano

Brescia, Angela (2019) L’incoronazione nella rappresentazione letteraria di Pietro da Eboli: legittimazione e delegittimazione del sovrano. In: Forme esemplari di costruzione del potere legittimo: Alfonso il Magnanimo (1394-1458). Mondi Mediterranei (1). BUP-Basilicata University Press, Potenza, pp. 189-204. ISBN 978-88-31309-00-4

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Abstract

Coronations, as a liturgical ritual cooperating in consent organization around sovereigns and imperators, are able to justify power assumption. This event, expression of divine favor and predestination, ratified the right to rule, and ceremony description, done by poets and historiographers, was a powerful expedient of legitimation, but also a sharp instrument of delegitimation. This function is evident also in the manuscript containing Petrus de Ebulo’s Carmen de motibus Siculis, which provide to us an elaborated description about Henry VI’s ceremony of imperial consacration and Tancredi’s from Lecce coronation as king of the Regnum. In the work, we can attend the evident inversion of colors that poet uses to dye two differents perspectives: on the on hand the usurper Tancredi, who is mocked and sneered by Peter, on the other Henry VI, celebrated and lauded as a divin expression of God.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Peter from Eboli, Emperor Henry VI, Tancredi count of Lecce, Medieval historiography
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2021 05:19
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2021 05:19
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/3338

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