The King's Two Bodies

Book • 1957

Author

Ernst H. Kantorowicz

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Mentioned by

Gio Pennacchietti

Philip J. Stern

Mentioned in 3 episodes

Mentioned when discussing the model of sacralized monarchical power and the divinization of sovereignty that prevailed in late medieval Western Europe.

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Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"

Mentioned by

Gio Pennacchietti

as a very good book about the divine right of kings that a friend is reading.

What is the Dissident Right? w/ Gio Pennacchietti: The J. Burden Show Ep. 372

Mentioned by

Philip J. Stern

when discussing how to think about a modern state.

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mentioned by Christopher Bonura as a reference for the definition of political theology.

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Mentioned as a work that has shown how the theoretical idea behind a corporation becomes the foundation for thinking about modern sovereignty.

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mentioned by

Philip J. Stern

when discussing the foundation for thinking about modern sovereignty.

Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)

Mentioned by Christopher Bonura as a reference for understanding political order through theology.

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

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