Recoronation

[…] the great, the good, the devout, the obedient would rise with the graced, the games would be conducted, celebrations held, feasts, dances, marriages, recoronations, and spectacular births would occur.

The only sure references to the ascent of the throne are found in context with Ur, however, and no and incontrovertible evidence was recoronations in the full sense.

The State Tinkers is one of many recoronations or even decoronations of George III that appeared in response to the unprecedented threats to the monarchy during the closing decades of the century.

This is why the very remarkable quadrant-shaped wall [fig. 18–19], that one follows to reach eastward the so-called « Heb-Sed court », had only been imagined to facilitate the fictive crossing of processions of spirits, which would have solemnly driven his ka from the royal rest-house to the double canopy of the jubilee for his two recoronations as King of the South and King of the North.

The wig plus crown, in conjunction with the youthful physiognomy, signaled the rejuvenation of the king at one of his sed-festival recoronations.

Неrе Вarker curiously ignores Schreiner’s hypothesis for Manuel’s recoronation, namely that Маnuel’s first coronation in 1373 plausibly had not involved the patriarch of Constantinople, owing to John V’s personal conversion to Catholicism in October 1369, and his subsequent possible exclusion from participating in orthodox rites. Schreiner intimated, consequently, that the 1392 recoronation, though not strictly necessary to legitimize Маnuel’s succession, was intended to rectify the anomaly that he heretоfore had not been anointed by the patriarch of Constantinople, in an orthodox ecclesiastical ceremony.

Originally it was not even the most prominent act in king-making, for there could be coronations and recoronations, while early accounts of anointings do not even mention coronations.

Yet, although we have this in mind, it would be better to put the cases of ritual recoronations of incumbents aside and focus on those cases where competition is more likely—that is, when the incumbent steps down.