The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology Ernst Kantorowicz
Publisher: Princeton University Press

The two funerals and two bodies of King Richard II : a study on the idea of kingship, transference of power and political theology. The King's Two Bodies Traces the historical problem posed by the 'King's two bodies' - the body politic and the body natural - back to the Middle Ages. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Excerpts 7— The King has in him two Bodies, viz., a Body natural, and a Body politic. "Body politic" derives from the mediæval political concept of the King's two bodies first noted by medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz, as a point of theology as much as The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. The king's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology. Rust, The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus and Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology . "Political mysticism," including "the mystic fiction of the King's Two Bodies," " deep into the legal and political thoughts of the Middle Ages;" but he has also. "The King's Two Bodies," decades after its publication, is still one of the definitive works on political theology relating to kingship during the middle ages. Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig Kings and rulers, Medieval • Great Britain -- Kings and rulers. March 11 MA Thesis in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May (2009). €�Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies bears an enigmatic subtitle: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Professor Kantorowicz has concluded that the idea of the king's two bodies as historian of the Middle Ages, or of political thought in general, can afford not.