Rebecca Favorito is a PhD candidate in medieval history at The Ohio State University with research interests in the political, social, and cultural history of late medieval England. Her dissertation, "The Role of Ritual in Creating Political Culture: The Coronation and the Body Politic in Lancastrian England,” argues that the late medieval England coronation was a multi-day, multi-event process that allowed for the participation of a wide range of English society and that both shaped and was shaped by contemporary political culture.