Summary
Ernst Kantorowicz: Two Kings' Bodies
A Study of Medieval Political Theology Originally published in English in 1957, Kantorowicz's study begins with an analysis of the legal reports of the influential Elizabethan jurist and theorist Plowden, and the final essay is devoted to Dante's "concept of royal status based on Adam, or man." Kantorowicz explores the complex and long-lasting intellectual processes in which the king's political (immortal) body is separated from his natural (sinful, mortal) body. It is precisely at this point of separation of the two bodies that the core of the problem is located, which continues to this day. This is why this book is always relevant.
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