The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political TheologyOriginally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma posed by the “King’s two bodies”—the body natural and the body politic—back to the Middle Ages. |
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... Frederick the Second Pater et Filius Iustitiae Iustitia Mediatrix 3. Bracton Rex infra et supra Legem Christus-Fiscus V. POLITY-CENTERED KINGSHIP: CORPUS MYSTICUM 1. Corpus Ecclesiae mysticum 2. Corpus Reipublicae mysticum 3. Pro patria ...
... Frederick II (d. 1250), whom he cast in mythic terms as a wondrous leader of Germany: the book, which had no footnotes, was a manifesto for the elitist cultural politics of the George circle. Its reception 4 S. Lassig, Judische Wege ins ...
... Abulafia, “Kantorowicz, Frederick II and England,” in Fried & Benson eds., Ernst Kantorowicz, 124-43, at 125. sociated with the garlic-eating world of the shtetl. Kantorowicz was xi INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION.
... Frederick II, albeit unsuccessfully.14 ^e post-war edition and the English translation did not, however, carry the swastika that 10 R. Giesey, “Ernst H. Kantorowicz: scholarly triumphs and academic travails in Weimar Germany and the ...
... Frederick II features prominently, but as an implausibly rationalized figure.16 Kantorowicz barely cites his own biography of the emperor, and even then obliquely.17 This is a conscious programme of obfuscation. As Robert Lerner has ...
Contents
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III CHRISTCENTERED KINGSHIP | 42 |
IV LAWCENTERED KINGSHIP | 87 |
CORPUS MYSTICUM | 193 |
VI ON CONTINUITY AND CORPORATIONS | 273 |
VII THE KING NEVER DIES | 314 |
DANTE | 451 |
IX EPILOGUE | 496 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 507 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 513 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX | 515 |
ADDENDA | 568 |
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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz Limited preview - 1997 |
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz No preview available - 2016 |