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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernst Kantorowicz (Paperback, 2016)

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ISBN-13: 9780691169231, 978-0691169231. Long live the king.". The king's natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, naturally, as do all humans; but the king's other body, the spiritual body, transcends the earthly and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule.

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Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, The king is dead. Long live the king. In The King's Two Bodie