The King's Two Bodies

By - Kantorowicz, Ernst H. (Ernst Hartwig),Jordan, William Chester,American Council of Learned Societies

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1957

ISBN 10 - 0691017042

ISBN 13 - 9780691017044

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Kings and rulers

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 321.6 KAN

Physical Description - xvi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 25 cm

Notes - Includes bibliography and index

Book Information

First published in 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz's THE KING'S TWO BODIES traces the "King's two bodies", the body politic and the body natural, back to the Middle Ages. By placing the concept in its proper setting of medieval thought and political theory, Kantorowicz demonstrates how the early-modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a "political theology". illustrations.

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