J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, Early Medieval Kingship in England and the Continent (Oxford, reprint 1980) and The Long-Haired Kings and Other Essays (London, 1962). See also his "The Via Regia of the Carolingian Age," in Beryl Smalley (ed.), Trends in Medieval Political Thought (Oxford, 1965). On long hair, also see J. Hoyaux, "Reges criniti. Chevelures, tonsures et scalps chez les Mérovingiens," Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 26 (1948).
Janet Nelson, Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe (London, 1986).
Carl Erdmann, Forschungen zur politischen Ideenwelt des frühmittelalters (Berlin, 1951).
François-Louis Ganshof, The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy. Studies in Carolingian History, trans. Janet Sondheimer (Ithaca, NY, 1971).
Reinhard Schneider, Königswahl und Königserhebung im Frühmittelalter (Stuttgart, 1972).
Walter Ullman, The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (London, 1969).
Silvia Konecny, Die Frauen des karolingischen Könighauses (Vienna, 1976).
Jean Reviron, Les idées politico-religieuses d'un évêque du IXe siècle; Jonas d'Orléans et son 'De institutione regia'. (Paris, 1930).
Anneliese Sprengler, "Die Gebete der Krönungsordines Hinkmars von Reims für Karl den Kahlen als König von Lothringen und für Ludwig den Stammler," Zeitschrift für kirchengeschichte, 53 (1950/51), pp. 245-67.
Michael McCormick, Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Medieval West (Cambridge, 1986).
Peter Willmes, Der herrscher-Adventus im Klöster des Frühmittelalters (Munich, 1976).
F. Liebermann, The National Assemby in the Anglo-Saxon Period (Halle, 1913).
Hanna Vollrath-Reichelt, Königsgedanke und Königtum bei den Angelsachsen (Cologne, 1971).
Daniel Binchy, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship (Oxford, 1970).
Francis John Byrne, Irish Kings and High Kings (London, 1973).
Georges Dumézil, The Destiny of a King, trans. Alf Hiltebeitel (Chicago, 1971).
Some useful articles: D. Bethurum, "Regnum and Sacerdotium in the Early Eleventh Century," in Peter Clemoes and Kathleen Hughes (eds), England Before the Conquest (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 129-45; Donncha O Corrain, "Nationality and Kingship in Pre-Norman Ireland," in T. W. Moddey (ed.), Nationality and the Pursuit of National Independence (Historical Studies, 11; Belfast, 1978), pp. 1-35.
Herbert Mitteis, Der Staat des Hohen Mittelalters, fourth edition (Weimar, 1953). ET: The State in the Middle Ages, trans. H. Orton (Amsterdam, 1975).
Fritz Kern, Gottesgnadentum und Widerstandsrecht im frühen Mittelalter, second edition by Rudolf Buchner (Darmstadt, 1954). ET of first edition: Kingship, Law, and Constitution in the Middle Ages, trans. S. B. Chrimes (Oxford, 1949).
Ernst Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, 1957).
Robert Folz, The Concept of Empire in Western Europe from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Centuries (London, 1969).
Edmund Ernst Stengel, Abhandlungen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisertums im Mittelalter (Cologne, 1960).
Percy Ernst Schramm, Kaiser, Könige und Päpste: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 5 vols. (Stuttgart, 1969-71).
Wilhelm Kölmel, Regimen Christianum (Berling, 1970).
Eckhard Müller-Mertens, Regnum Teutonicum (Vienna, 1970).
Gottfied Koch, Auf dem Wege zum Sacrum Imperium (Vienna, 1972).
Hans Kammler, Die feudalmonarchien: politische und wirtschaftlich-soziale Faktoren ihrer Entwicklung und Funktionsweise (Cologne, 1974).
Susan Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe, 900-1300 (Oxford, 1984).
Reinhard Schneider (ed.), Das Spätmittelalterliche Königtum europaischen Vergleich (Vorträge und Forschungen, 32; Sigmaringen, 1987).
Pauline Stafford, Queens, Concubines and Dowagers: the King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages (Athens, GA, 1983). See also Pauline Stafford, "The King's Wife in Wessex, 500-1066," Past and Present, 91 (1981), pp. 3-27.
Kenneth Pennington, The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition (Berkeley, 1993).
Gerhard Baaken, "Königtum, Burgen und Königsfreie," in ? (Vorträge und Forschungen, 6; Stuttgart, 1961), pp. 9-95.
Joel Rosenthal, "Edward the Confessor and Robert the Pious: 11th century kingship and biography," Mediaeval Studies, 33 (1971), 7-20.
On various aspects of the imperial ideal, see H. Löwe, "Kaisertum und Abendlan in ottonischer und frühsalischer Zeeit," Historische Zeitschrift, 196 (1963), pp. 529-62;
Karl-Ferdinand Werner, "Das hochmittelalterliche Imperium im politischen Bewüsstesein Frankreichs (10-12 Jhdts)," Historische Zeitshrift, 200 (1965), pp. 1-60; O. Hageneder, "Weltherrschft im Mittelalters," MIOG, 93 (1985), pp. 257-78.
On state building in the later middle ages, see particularly Joseph Strayer, The Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Princeton, 1970); Fredric Cheyette, "The Invention of the state," in Essays in Medieval Civilization : the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, ed. B. K. Lackner and K. R. Phillip (Austin, TX, 1979), pp. 143-76; Bernard Guenée, States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1985); C. Given-Wilson, The Royal Household and the King's Affinity: Service, Politics and Finance in England, 1360-1413 (New Haven, 1986); David Abulafia, Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (Oxford, 1992); Colette Beaune, The Birth of an Ideology: Myths and Symbols of Nation in Late Medieval France, trans Susan Ross Huston, ed. Fredric Cheyette (Berkeley, 1991); J. H. Burns, Lordship, Kingship, and Empire: the Idea of Monarchy, 1400-1525 (Oxford, 1992).
Philip Grierson, "Election and Inheritance in Early Germanic Kingship," Cambridge Historical Journal, 7 (1941).
Jan Dhondt, "Election et hérédité sous les Carolingiens et les premiers capétiens," Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 18 (1939), pp. 913-53.
Andrew Lewis, Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State (Harvard Historical Studies, 100; Cambridge, MA, 1981).
Reinhard Schneider and Harald Zimmermann (eds.), Wahlen und Wählen im Mittelalter (Vorträge und Forschungen, 37; Sigmaringen, Thorbecke, 1990).
Gerald Ellard, Ordination Anointings in the Western Church Before 1000 A.D. (Cambridge, MA, 1933).
Eduard Eichmann, Die Kaiserkröngung im Abendland. Ein Beitrag zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des kirchlichen Rechts, der Liturgie und der Kirchen politik, 2 vols. (Würzburg, 1942).
Cornelius Bouman, Sacring and Crowning: The Development of the Latin Ritual for the Anointing of Kings and the Coronation of an Emperor Before the Eleventh Century (Bijdragen van het Instituut voor middeleeuvse Geschiedenis der Tijks-Universiteit te Utrecht, 30; Groningen, 1957).
Aimé Bonnefin, Sacre des rois de France (Limoges, 1982).
Michael Enright, Iona, Tara, and Soissons: The Origin of the Royal Anointing Ritual (Berlin, 1985).
Le sacré des rois: actes du Colloque international d'histore sur les sacres et couronnements royaux (Paris, 1985).
Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke, "Frühmitttelatlerliche Festkröngungen?" Historische Zeitschrift, 211 (1970), pp. 556-88.
J. A. Robinson, "The Coronation Order in the Tenth Century," Journal of Theological Studies, 19 (1918), pp. 56-72.
G. Garnett, "Coronation and Propaganda: Some Implications of the Norman Claim to the Throne of england in 1066," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth series, 36 (1986), pp. 91-116.
Percy Ernst Schramm, Der König der Frankreich: Das Wesen der Monarchie vom 9. zum 16. Jahrhundert, second edtion, 2 vols. (1960). ET of former: A History of the English Coronation, trans. Leopold G. Wickham (1937).
K. Olivecrona, Das Werden eines Königs nach altschwedischen Rechte: der Königsritus als magischer Akt (Lund, 1947).
Ernst Kantorowicz, Laudes Regiae. A Study in Liturgical Acclamation and Medieval Ruler Worship (Berkeley, 1946).
On Laudes, see also Bernhard Opfermann, Die liturgischen Herrscherakklamationen im Sacrum Imperium des Mittelalters (Münster, 1953).
On royal ceremony, see Gerd Tellenbach, "Römischer und christlicher Reichsgedanke in der Liturgie des frühen Mittelalters," Sitzungsberichte des Akademie Heidelberg (1934); H. M. Schaller, "Der heilige Tag als Termin mittelalterlicher Staatsakte," Deutches Arciv, 30 (1974), pp. 1-24.
Marc Bloch, Les rois thaumaturges. Etude sur le caractère surnaturel attribué à la puissance royale particulièrement en France et en Angleterre (Publications de la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg, 19; Strasbourg, 1924). ET: The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France, trans. J.E. Anderson (London, 1973). But see also Frank Barlow, "The King's Evil," English Historical Review, 95 (1980), pp. 3-27.
Percy Ernst Schramm, Florentine Mütherich, Hermann Fillitz, Denkmale der deutschen Könige und Kaiser, second edition, 2 vols. (1978-81).
Patrick Corbet, Les saints ottoniens. Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l'an mil (Beihefte der Francia, 15; Sigmaringen, 1986).
Susan Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1988).
Gabor Klaniczay, The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, trans. Susan Singerman, ed. Karen Margolis (Princeton, 1990).
Margaret Toynbee, Saint Louis of Toulouse and the Process of Canonization in the Fourteenth Century (Manchester, 1929).
Janet Nelson, "Royal Saints and Early Medieval Kingship," Sanctity and Secularity: The Church and the World (Studies in Church History 10; Oxford, 1973), pp. 39-44.
Karol Gorski, "Le Roi-saint: un problème d'idéologie féodale," Annales, 24 (1969), pp. 370-6. (Xerox in Room 214.)
Claude Carozzi, "Le roi et la liturgie chez Helgaud de Fleury," in Evelyne Patlagean and Pierre Riché, eds., Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés. IVe-XIIe siècles (Paris, 1981), pp. 417-432.
Elissa Henkle, "The Saint as Secular Ruler: Aspects of Welsh Hagiography," Folklore, 98 (1987), pp. 226-32.
Percy Ernst Schramm, Herrschafszeichen und Staatssymbolik, 3 vols. (Schriften der MGH, 13; Stuttgart, 1954-6). And see also Janos Bak, "Medieval Symbology of the State: Percy E. Schramm's Contribution," Viator, 4 (1973), pp. 33-63.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk of the Niolotic Sudan (Cambridge, 1948).
Divine Kingship in Africa (London, 1970).
Benjamin Ray, Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda (Oxford, 1991).
David Cannadine and Simon Price (eds.), Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (Cambridge, 1992).