The ambivalent space: Where to bury a king?

The ambivalence of royal burials extends over humility and celestial elevation of the dead, over religious ideal and earthly transition of authority, over individual death and an abstract idea of power. As a whole, these burials form an arch, under which a medieval kingship could maintain and flourish in a Christian society.

Ringsted; Speyer; Westminster; rite de passage; kinship