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The King's Two Bodies

By Ernst H. Kantorowicz

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0691017042, 9780691017044
Open Library ID
OL7756399M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
262 MB (274223347 bytes)
Pages
309\309
Topic
History
Time added
2010-04-25 21:59:20

Description

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."

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