The coronation chair and stone of Scone : history, archaeology and conservation / by Rodwell, Warwick

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster -- Historiography of the Chair and the Stone -- St Edward's Chair and the Stone of Scone in medieval history -- From Scone to Westminster : starting with a stone -- King Edward I commissions a chair, 1297 -- Design and construction of St Edward's Chair : a detailed study -- The polychromy of the Coronation Chair : a detailed study by Marie Louise Sauerberg -- The Stone seat -- The Coronation Chair from the later Middle Ages to the seventeenth century -- A companion Chair for Queen Mary II, 1689 -- Vicissitudes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ceremonies and incidents of the twentieth century involving the Coronation Chair -- History ignored : the events of 1996 -- Popular influence of the Chair in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Conservation and the Chair : a physical history by Marie Louise Sauerberg -- One of the glories of Westmenster Abbey : the Coronation Chair redisplayed, 2013 by Ptolemy Dean…”
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