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<p>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 <i>The King's Two Bodies</i>, 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 devel
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- Author
- ERNST H.KANTOROWICZ, Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, Ernst H. Kantorowicz
- Publisher
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691020181
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Religion, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13