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The King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Taschenbuch von Ernst Kantorowicz
Sprache: Englisch

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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."
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."
Über den Autor
Ernst H. Kantorowicz
With a new introduction by Conrad Leyser and a preface by William Chester Jordan
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691169231
ISBN-10: 0691169233
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kantorowicz, Ernst
Zusammengestellt: Jordan, William Chester
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 216 x 139 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: Ernst Kantorowicz
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,646 kg
Artikel-ID: 104238930
Über den Autor
Ernst H. Kantorowicz
With a new introduction by Conrad Leyser and a preface by William Chester Jordan
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691169231
ISBN-10: 0691169233
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kantorowicz, Ernst
Zusammengestellt: Jordan, William Chester
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 216 x 139 x 48 mm
Von/Mit: Ernst Kantorowicz
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,646 kg
Artikel-ID: 104238930
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