First published in 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz's THE KING'S TWO BODIES traces the "King's two bodies", the body politic and the body natural, back to the Middle Age
Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout histo
Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of w
The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth century This is th