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. |
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... , ix; on Benjamin, see here W. Fietkau, “Loss of Experience and Experience of Loss: Remarks on the Problem of the the abandonment of “piety” and the adoption of a “secular” xiv INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION.
... secular” identity. Was this progress, or a grievous loss—was it possible or desirable to re-enchant the world? In his Political Geology, published in 1922 and much feted in the following decade under the Nazis, Carl Schmitt, a figure at ...
... secular reader. Staying in England, the exposition then turns to the articulation of the notion of a ruler's physical and symbolic body in the Elizabethan jurist Edward Plowden; and then the same ideas are seen to animate the discussion ...
... secular and of late antiquity: see his Saeculum: History and Society in the Geology of St Augustine (Cambridge, 1970). 46 KTB, 506. 47 I Cor 10-15; See KTB, 506, n. 44, the book's final footnote, referring to M. Roberti, “Il corpus ...
... secular thought remains probably without parallel.* That the king is 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 ...
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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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