The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political TheologyPrinceton University Press, 1997 - 568 páginas In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies"--the body politic and the body natural--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. The notion of the two bodies allowed for the continuity of monarchy even when the monarch died, as summed up in the formulation "The king is dead. Long live the king." Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodies explores the long Christian past behind this "political theology." It provides a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state. Kantorowicz fled Nazi Germany in 1938, after refusing to sign a Nazi loyalty oath, and settled in the United States. While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he once again refused to sign an oath of allegiance, this one designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. He was dismissed as a result of the controversy and moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life, and where he wrote The King's Two Bodies. |
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... NEVER DIES 1. Dynastic Continuity 291 291 302 314 317 2. The Crown as Fiction 336 Corona visibilis et invisibilis 336 The Fiscal Crown 342 Inalienability 347 Crown and Universitas 358 The King and the Crown 364 The Crown a Minor 3 ...
... never materialized . The contributions were returned to their authors , and though dis- pleased by the fact that a well - deserved recognition was withheld from my friend , I was nevertheless not unhappy to see my manu- script back ...
... never withheld his opinion and made numerous cor- rections , and who gave the author a chance to discuss with him on many evenings the broader problems as well as countless de- tails . The author , further , was in the fortunate ...
... never dies , " they believed that henceforth 1 F. W. Maitland , Selected Essays ( Cambridge , 1936 ) , 104-127 , reprint from Law Quarterly Review , XVII ( 1901 ) , 131-146 . they were freed from paying the customary relief on the 3 ...
... 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 thinking wrong : he can never mean ...
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IV | 5 |
VI | 22 |
VIII | 40 |
X | 59 |
XI | 76 |
XII | 85 |
XIII | 95 |
XIV | 141 |
XIX | 271 |
XXI | 289 |
XXII | 312 |
XXIII | 315 |
XXIV | 334 |
XXV | 381 |
XXVI | 449 |
XXVIII | 494 |
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