The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political TheologyPrinceton University Press, 10.05.2016 - 632 Seiten 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 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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... century. The third is intrinsic to the book itself. The King's Two Bodies asks, precisely, about the naked emperor and his new clothes. How is it that rulers, humans like the rest of us, are able to hold sway? ^What kind of fictions are ...
... century had involved 21 See A. Boureau, Histoires d'un historien: Kantorowicz (Paris, 1990); in the Ger man translation (1992), Boureau answers his critics. 22 See N. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages: the Lives, Works, and Ideas of the ...
... century set up “the Problem” and define the far horizon of the inquiry: the book is launched as a genealogical inquiry into what makes the juridical fiction of a ruler's symbolic body possible. “Political theology” derives from theology ...
... century, and from there further back to the late tenth century, to the Aachen Gospels and their depiction of Otto III as an emperor touched by God. The ruler here stands in for Christ, the king of heaven whose body came back from the ...
... century as the body of the faithful, and then in the fourth century as a legal corporation under Constantine, the first Christian emperor.48Here, at the very end of the book, Kantorowicz touches on questions which continue to define ...
Inhalt
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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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