Aus dem Inhalt: E. Frezouls: De la maiestas populi Romani a la majeste imperiale u B. Bedos-Rezak: Ritual in the Royal Chancery: Text, Image, and the Representation of Kingship in Medieval French Diplomas (700-1200) u S. Bagge: Kingship in Medieval Norway. Ideal and Reality u D. Sadler: The King as Subject, the King as Author: Art and Politics of Louis IX u G. Klaniczay: Representations of the Evil Ruler in the Middle Ages u G. Melville: Herauts et heros u M.D. Birnbaum: Matthias Corvinus in Humanist and Popular Perspective u M.S. Flier: The Iconography of Royal Procession: Ivan the Terrible and the Muscovite Palm Sunday Ritual u L. M. Bryant: Politics, Ceremonies, and Embodiments of Majesty in Henry II's France u H. Weber: Das aToucher Royalo in Frankreich zur Zeit Heinrichs IV. und Ludwigs XIII. u D. J. Sturdy: The Royal Touch in England u A. Wolf: Ein aComico fuer den Kaiser u A. Guery: L'Image perdue des Rois de France (XVIIIe-XXe siecle) u D. E. Barclay: Ritual, Ceremonial, and the oInventiono of a Monarchical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Prussia.