King''s Two Bodies - A Study in Medieval Political Theology

Zusatztext "A monumental work of superb scholarship and profound learning, magnificently produced. . . . Few, if any, contributions to the study of medieval thought comparable to this depth and width have been made for many years." ---B. Chrimes, Law Quarterly Review Informationen zum Autor Ernst H. Kantorowicz (1895-1963) taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Conrad Leyser is associate professor of medieval history at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great . William Chester Jordan is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages (Princeton). Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung 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 post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king is dead. Long live the king." In The King's Two Bodie...

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• Authors: Ernst Kantorowicz, Ernst H. Kantorowicz
• Assisted by: William Chester Jordan (Foreword), Conrad Leyser (Introduction), Leyser Conrad (Introduction)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780691169231
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16923-1
• No. of pages: 632
• Series: Princeton Classics; Princton Classics; Princeton Classics; Princton Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Religion & politics, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Religion and Politics, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE