Mirko VAGNONI

Original title: La sacralità della regina nella Sicilia normanna. Il caso dell’Ordo coronationis

Published in Mulier aut Femina. Idealism or reality of women in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Kingdom of Sicily, Normans, Queenship, Representation of Power, Royal Sacrality.

Generally historians have given little attention to the sacrality of the Norman queens of Sicily. Certainly, there are few sources on this subject but this paper wants to study this topic analysing a very important text for the representation of power: the Ordo coronationis written in the Norman Sicily and that describes the ritual for the coronation of a queen.