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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... hand, it was thrilling that a scholar trained in the proverbially rigorous and conserva tive German tradition could be found in apparent flight from the traditional history of politics as early as 1957. Instead of of fering a portrait ...
... hand, and a body politic and immortal, on the other? There was, for these critics, even when they otherwise lavishly praised the book, a touch too much indulgence in recovering high intellectual discourses in the pages of Kantorowicz's ...
... hands of my friend. Max Radin died on June 22, 1950, and the study, destined to elicit his criticisms, his comments, and his broad laughter, serves now to honor his memory. In its present, final form, this study has considerably ...
... hand, missing of salient points on the other. But those are the hazards to which the outsider will usually expose ... hands on even the most important authors whose works, so far as they are published at all (there is, for example, no ...
... hands of Aristotle, but also Aristotle at the hands of mediaeval scholastics; Professor Erwin Panofsky, upon whom the author could always rely when questions of art history arose and who would be untiring once the hunt was on; Professor ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |