Ernst Kantorowicz and the Sacralization of the Past
Carl Landauer
“ At the beginning of this book,” Ernst Kantorowicz wrote in preface to The King's Two Bodies , “stands a conversation held twelve years ago with my friend Max Radin (then John H. Boalt Professor Law, at Berkeley) his tiny office Hall, brimful floor ceiling and door window books, papers, folders, notes—and life.” 1 two men had that day centered on Kantorowicz's amusement receiving mailing from Order St Benedict, Inc. “To scholar coming European Continent not trained refinements Anglo-American legal thinking,” wrote, “nothing could have been more baffling than find abbreviation Inc ., customary business other corporations, attached venerable community founded by St. Benedict rock Montecassino very year which Justinian abolished Platonic academy Athens.” thus traced origins magnum opus an amusing tale about American Benedictine abbey stimulating between scholars Berkeley campus. But what accomplished opening—in part reminding reader erudition—was place study realm different occupied first immense volume 1927, Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite .
Central European History