The King\'s two bodies - Kantorowicz E.H., Jordan W.C. (preface)
KORTE INHOUD
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. Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, The King's Two Bodies explores...
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1997 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 568 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691017042 ISBN-13: 9780691017044Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
