Resumen de The People Demand a King: Visualizing Monarchy in the Psalter of Louis IX
The sequence of seven images depicting the presentation of Saul's rise to power at the end of the Gothic Psalter of Louis IX offers an extraordinary commentary on the nature of kingship. Partly due to this unusual iconographic end, this cycle has been regarded as incomplete. However, the narrative of its seven conclusive miniatures is able to map the emergence of the new subject of king in the elaboration of a model of rule, thereby suggesting a sense of closure and completion. The cycle's stress on individual subjects of Old Testament history and the construction of their identities through their relations to one another, with the people of Israel, and with the Lord, turns the king into a picture, providing a sophisticated mirror of medieval rulership and of the king himself.
