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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... Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1987), and P. R. L. Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York, 1988). Bynum went ...
... Holy Roman Empire under the rule of a hero: what happened when the hero-ruler was gone? How did the world not fall apart? Kantorowicz was not a historian of “hard-nosed” 40 See C. Davis, “Kantorowicz and Dante,” in Benson & Fried eds ...
... holy sprites and angels that mey not synne, wex old, be seke, or hurte ham selff, have more poiar than we, that mey harme owre selff with all thes defautes. So is the kynges power more....* The passage has not been adduced here in order ...
... Holy Orders), Kantorowicz, “The Carolingian King in the Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura,” Late Classical and Mediaeval Studies in Honor of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. (Princeton, 1954), 293. Plowden, Reports, 238a. 11 Ibid., 242. 12 ...
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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 |