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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... immortal because legally he can never die, or that he is legally never under age, are familiar stage properties. But it goes further than expected when we are told that the king “is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of ...
... immortal” (cf. 12a). • Blackstone, Comm., 1,270. v Ibid., I,c.i8, 469; Maitland, Sel.Ess., 75. 8 See Maitland's remarks in: Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law (2nd ed., Cambridge, 1898 and 1923), 1,512, also 495, and Sel ...
... immortal part of kingship, from one incarnation to another as expressed by the concept of the king's demise is ... immortality” to the individual king as King, that is, with regard to his superbody. In the case Hill v. Grange (2 and 3 ...
... immortal, nay, the politic body hath no soul, for it is framed by the policy of man.”19 Moreover, treason, that is, “to intend or compass mortem et destructionem domini Regis, must needs be understood of his natural body, for his ...
... immortality; but, worse than that, kingship itself seems to have changed its essence. Instead of being unaffected “by ... immortal body politic, “this double Body, to which no Body is equal” (above, p. 12). Gone also is the fiction of ...
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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