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The coronation ceremonies of William I in 1066 and Roger II in 1130 were a matter of royal sacrality, but both expressed, through the coronation ritual and artifacts related to it, their claim to rule imperially over their kingdoms. For this, they used a multitude of references borrowed from the extremely polysemic repertoire of the imperium. By adding them to the coronation ritual, they reinforced the ideological syncretism that marked people’s minds, beyond any coherence with the reality of their governing practices. The liturgical unity between the Norman kingdoms of England and Sicily allows us to simultaneously approach the differences and similarities between these two ceremonies, during which the symbols of imperialism demonstrated the idea that empire was, for both of them, possible.
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