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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... course, the return of the repressed, and not only in the sphere of the political. A 1990 biography by Alain Boureau was met with the accusation that he had not discussed Kantorowicz's sexual orientation.21 ^en in 1991, with tabloid ...
... course, in Byzantium, but it was some three centuries before a western emperor returned, in the form of Charlemagne; a further interregnum followed in the tenth century, before the accession of the Ottonians. We fret over the ...
... course of four decades.25 And Friedrich Baethgen's measured evaluation of the book in his memorial for Kantorowicz still commands wide endorsement: The King's Two Bodies has been and continues to be indispensable for all investigations ...
... course of the 1970s and 1980s there was an even greater surge of interest in The King's Two Bodies, as evidenced, it would seem reasonable to suggest, from the proliferation of translations:29 Spanish in 1985; Italian and French in 1989 ...
... course not unknown to Maitland, since Otto von Gierke, Deutsches Genossenschaftsrecht (Berlin, 1891), 111,294,0.148, quotes a striking parallel. Antonius de Butrio, a 14thcentury canon lawyer, claims that it made no difference ...
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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