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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... passage has not been adduced here in order to prove that the Elizabethan jurists “borrowed” from Fortescue, or that his treatise was their “source,” although in other respects this possibility should not be excluded. What matters is ...
... passage as well as that from Lucas de Penna [below] to the kind interest of Professor Gaines Post.) Further, and once more in connection with advowson, Johannes Andreae, Novella in Decretales, on c.un. VI 3,i9,n.i2 (Venice, 1612), fol ...
... passage to which the 13th-century glossator Marinus de Caramanico (ibid., 93) remarks: “maior causa trahit ad se minorem,” with a reference to D.5,1,54; see also, for the same idea in the form of an hexameter, Nicolaus de Braia, Gesta ...
... passage quoted (above, p. 13) from the case Willion v. Berkley, referred to the simile of the state as a human body, a “Corporation” whereof the king is the head and the subjects are the members. Of course, that metaphor was very old ...
... passages.** New places, however, would not add new aspects to the general problem; and the passages referred to ... passage; see, for England, e.g., Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, fol.3, ed. G. E. Woodbine (New ...
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 |