Review of “Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies”
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DOI: 10.1093/sf/soab070
Abstract: C an a book about bodies also be about interpretation? This, I want to argue, is the principal wager of Isaac Reed’s new book Power in Modernity and its effort to make a theoretical case… read more here.
Keywords: book; power modernity; two bodies; modernity ... See more keywords
Ernst Kantorowicz, Shakespeare, and the Humanities’ Two Bodies
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DOI: 10.1177/1743872114559882
Abstract: This commentary reflects on two very different revivals of Ernst Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology in the field of early modern studies, the first during the heyday of New… read more here.
Keywords: humanities two; kantorowicz shakespeare; ernst kantorowicz; two bodies ... See more keywords