The King's Two Bodies : A Study in Medieval Political Theology / Ernst Kantorowicz
Originally 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 post mortem 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 problem posed by the "King's two bodies"--the body natural and the body politic--back to the Middle Ages and demonstrates, by placing the concept in its proper setting of medieval thought and political theory, how the early-modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a "political theology.?The king's natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, naturally, as do all humans; but the king's other body, the spiritual body, transcends the earthly and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule.-
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Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
, 2016
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Umfang | 1 online resource : 32 halftones |
ISBN | 9781400880782 |
Sprache | Englisch |
Online-Zugang | https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880782 Cover De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba) |
Persistente URL | https://katalogplus.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/title/HT020731311 |
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