05091cam a2200733Ia 4500 kingstwobodiesst0000kant CaSfIA 20250727022933.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 980217t19971957njua ob 001 0 eng d 57005448 (OCoLC)1245293663 PBB eng PBB UKM OCLCQ BAKER YDXCP LVB OCLCG AU@ NCM CUS GEQ WCL UKV3G CDX NLGGC TLE OCLCQ OCLCF NLE OCLCO UPM OCLCQ OCLCA DHA NJR OCLCQ NMC OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA OCLCQ A7U SNN UKMGB OCLCQ CaSfIA GB9833990 bnb 011975308 Uk 0691017042 (pbk.) 9780691017044 (pbk.) 0691020183 (pbk.) 9780691020181 (pbk.) 0691071209 9780691071206 e-uk--- JC385 .K25 1997 321.60940902 21 15.70 bcl Kantorowicz, Ernst H. (Ernst Hartwig), 1895-1963. The king's two bodies : a study in mediaeval political theology / by Ernst H. Kantorowicz ; with a new preface by William Chester Jordan. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997], ©1957. 1 online resource (xxiv, 568 pages : illustrations) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Princeton paperbacks Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and index. Preface (1997) / William Chester Jordan -- I. The Problem: Plowden's Reports -- II. The Shakespeare: King Richard II -- III. Christ-Centered Kingship -- IV. Law-Centered Kingship -- V. Polity-Centered Kingship: Corpus Mysticum -- VI. On Continuity and Corporations -- VII. The King Never Dies -- VIII. Man-Centered Kingship: Dante -- IX. Epilogue. Annotation In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. InThe 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."Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodiesexplores the long Christian past behind this "political theology." It provides a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state. Kantorowicz fled Nazi Germany in 1938, after refusing to sign a Nazi loyalty oath, and settled in the United States. While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he once again refused to sign an oath of allegiance, this one designed to identify Communist Party sympathizers. He resigned as a result of the controversy and moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life, and where he wroteThe King's Two Bodies. Archive Kings and rulers. Great Britain Kings and rulers. Kings and rulers Religious aspects. Kings and rulers, Medieval. Europe Kings and rulers History to 1500. Europe Church history 600-1500. Rois et souverains Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Kings and rulers. fast (OCoLC)fst00987694 Kings and rulers, Medieval. fast (OCoLC)fst00987741 Kings and rulers Religious aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00987716 Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 Koningschap. gtt Politieke theologie. gtt Princeton paperbacks. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01504 Available from ACLS Humanities: Rutgers restricted https://archive.org/details/kingstwobodiesst0000kant Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL11182723M Additional information and access via Open Library kingstwobodiesst0000kant ark:/13960/t7qp6gv1w