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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... finally purchases made for the author by the Library of the Institute for Advanced Study and by the author himself gradually filled some of the most irritating gaps. The value of assistance through Interlibrary Loan, normally ...
... Finally the author wishes to express his thanks to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer who, on the part of the Institute for Advanced Study, generously subsidized the publication of this book, and to Princeton University Press for its willingness ...
... finally becomes slave to its own fictions—we are normally more ready to find in the religious sphere than in the allegedly sober and realistic realms of law, politics, and constitution; and therefore Maitland's often caustic criticisms ...
... finally it was a crime committed “against the King in that hereby he has lost a Subject, and (as Brown termed it) he being the Head has lost one of his mystic Members.”21 “Body politic” and “mystical body” seem to be used without great ...
... finally at Oxford. Another medallion, issued later in that year, epitomized a fuller story (fig. 2).40 From the obverse of the new medallion the king's personal image disappeared; we see instead the picture of a ship—not the customary ...
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 |