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The King's Two Bodies Ernst H. Kantorowicz
Publisher: Princeton University Press

We've already heard about the king's two bodies and the king's two genders. There are also elements of the King's two bodies notion. Language: English Released: 1997. Kantorowicz wrote a study called The King's Two Bodies designed, basically, to explain a puzzling phrase like "The King is Dead. GO The King's Two Bodies Author: Ernst H. Can we also talk about the king's two nationalities? Kantorowicz then describes the emergence, in the late Middle Ages, of the concept of the king's two bodies, vivified in Shakespeare's Richard II and applicable to the early modern body politic. Sorry to complicate things even further, but how does Welsh fit into this? Publisher: Princeton University Press Page Count: 309. The aim of Ernst Kantorowicz's landmark 1927 book The King's Two Bodies was to explore the relation in the middle ages between the king's physical body and his status as the embodiment of the kingdom. But there is also a much clearer division of powers, with certain things reserved for the supreme magistrate, but sovereignty (majesty) is reserved to the king. 7 I first encountered this interpretation in Harold C. In place of the State we have the Crown, and the whole King's (or Queen's) two bodies stuff (hence the King is Dead, long live the King). 6 On this, see the wonderful study of Ernst Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957).