<i>The King's Two Bodies</i> Today
Bernhard Jussen
Ernst Kantorowicz's central image of the king's doubled body has been very influential, but his main concern, medieval constitutional history, gone largely unnoticed. His long-term narrative hardly discussed, and methodological endeavor—he once called it "constitutional semantics"—has not left much an impression on scholarship. Both—his endeavor—are far from being outdated.
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