This episode is the second of two episodes on the history of coronations in England and Britain in connection with the upcoming coronation of King Charles III. In this episode we are talking to Alice Hunt, author of The Drama of Coronation. We’ll be getting her thoughts on the legacy of the medieval and early modern ceremonies on the upcoming coronation and which element of the ritual is the most significant.
Bio: Dr Alice Hunt is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include early modern and modern monarchy, ritual and ceremony and queenship as well as the period of English Republic. She is currently completing a book on the period of the English Republic and Oliver Cromwell. The research was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and the book, England’s Republic: The Lost Decade, 1649–1660, will be published by Faber and Faber. She is also a co-investigator on a major AHRC research project, ‘The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952-present’, working with colleagues at City, UCL and the University of the West Indies. This timely project scrutinises the political and cultural significance of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the British Monarchy in the Caribbean countries where the British monarch is still head of state.
Twitter: @amm_hunt
Research Project: ‘The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952-present’ https://www.visiblecrown.com/#Home-about
Book: The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drama-of-coronation/B63DC86C42DC9CB9CD508A0F155BB1CC
Other publications of interest: Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230111950