The Body in Mystery The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England |
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| Author:
| Rust, Jennifer R. |
| Series title: | Rethinking the Early Modern Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2963-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $80.00 |
Book Description:
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In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust engages the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far longer afterlife than has been previously assumed. Reviving a critical discussion of the German historian Ernst Kantorowicz's 1957 masterwork, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology, Rust brings to...
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In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust engages the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far longer afterlife than has been previously assumed. Reviving a critical discussion of the German historian Ernst Kantorowicz's 1957 masterwork, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology, Rust brings to bear the latest scholarship. Her book expands the representation of the corpus mysticum through a range of literary genres as well as religious polemics and political discourses.