The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political TheologyPrinceton University Press, 10/05/2016 - 632 páginas 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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 84
... fact no formal first citation with full bibliographical details: all we get, some a hundred pages in, is “Kaiser Friedrich II., 486”: see KTB, 101, n. 41 (cf. 98, n. 31, and 102, n. 42, for cursory citations of the “Erg. Bd.”). Compare ...
... fact, he became the more conscious of certain ideological gossamers the more he expanded and deepened his knowledge of the early development. It seems necessary, however, to stress the fact that considerations of that kind belonged to ...
... fact that the same works are quoted not uniformly according to the same editions tells yet another story. Fortunately, however, a study intending, as this one does, to make problems visible rather than to solve them, would not have ...
... fact and reason, has usually little left to recommend itself. Its language, unless resounding within its own magic or mystic circle, will often appear poor and even slightly foolish, and its most baffling metaphors and highflown images ...
... , 1936), goff; see also the criticism by Harald Fuchs, Der geistige Widerstand gegen Rom in der antiken Welt (Berlin, »9S8), 58f. been raised to angelic heights, a fact which is worth 8 THE PROBLEM: PLOWDEN'S REPORTS.
Índice
3 | |
7 | |
24 | |
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 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz Pré-visualização limitada - 1997 |
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |