ABSTRACT
This chapter has two constituent parts. It will begin in the same way that Orfelin opens his Festive Greeting – with the portraits of the main actors involved in Putnik’s installation. This part will discuss how the portraits reflected their role in the ceremony of investiture, and how they functioned as the visualizations of the leaders’ body politic, Imperial and archiepiscopal. The second part will contain an account of the ceremony, illustrated with descriptive passages from Orfelin’s festival book. Although his panegyric follows the official rite of investiture almost word by word, the text will not be transcribed here in full, to allow for concentration on those passages that carry the greatest symbolic significance.
