Table of Contents

Preface (1997)PrefaceIntroduction3IThe Problem: Plowden's Reports7IIThe Shakespeare: King Richard II24IIIChrist-Centered Kingship42IVLaw-Centered Kingship87VPolity-Centered Kingship: Corpus Mysticum193VIOn Continuity and Corporations273VIIThe King Never Dies314VIIIMan-Centered Kingship: Dante451IXEpilogue496List of Illustrations507Bibliography and Index513Addenda568

About the Author

Ernst H. Kantorowicz taught at the University of California, Berkeley and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. His books include "Frederick the Second" and "Selected Studies".

Reviews

"Professor Kantorowicz has written a great book, perhaps the most important work in the history of medieval political thought, surely the most spectacular, of the past several generations. Here, in superbly designed chapters based upon the best scholarship in every field even remotely concerned with the Middle Ages, is the development of the theory and symbolism of the early national states from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries."--P. N. Riesenberg, American Political Science Review "Professor Ernst Kantorowicz has in this volume given us a monumental work of superb scholarship and profound learning, magnificently produced by Princeton University Press. Few, if any, contributions to the study of medieval thought comparable to this depth and width have been made for many years."--B. Chrimes, The Law Quarterly Review