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

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). Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig (1997). However, the King's impressive visual imag(in)ing was offset by a large assemblage of contemporary, formal and anecdotal textual depictions, or literary portraits, which highlighted his reputation as an inveterate libertine. €�Charles and Camilla wow the Board.” Jewish Chronicle Online 07 Jul 2011. In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. They recently dug up Nicolae Ceausescu's corpse. As the denizen of an English Department I yearn for the day on which this hugely over-rated thinker is let go. The division between the frail human body and the ideal symbolic body of the monarch is what the historian Ernst Kantorowicz has called 'the king's two bodies'. 7 I first encountered this interpretation in Harold C. The king's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology (2 ed.).