Public Ritual

Bertelli, Sergio. The King's Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Translated by R. Burr Litchfield. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.

Buc, Philippe. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Scientific Theory. Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Cannadine, David and Simon Price, eds. Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Society and Culture in Early-Modern France: Eight Essays. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1975.

Grachem, Malik W. "The Slave's Two Bodies: The Life of an American Legal Fiction." The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series LX (2003): 809–842.

Hunt, Lynn, ed. The New Cultural History. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1989.

Jackson, Richard A. Vive le Roi!: A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to Charles X. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King's Two Bodies: A Study of Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton, N.J., and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Muir, Edward. Ritual in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Pennington, Kenneth. The Prince and the Law 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1993.

Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies and Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Wilentz, Sean, ed. Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics since the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.