Concept information
Preferred term
King's Two Bodies, doctrine
Definition
- Medieval belief that the king was two people in one: the ordinary man (the Body Natural, which died) and God's deputy on earth, the Crown in the abstract, the divine regent (the Body Politic, which endured even after death)
Entry terms
- Doctrine of the King's Two Bodies
- Theory of the King's Two Bodies
Notation
- 120416
In other languages
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French
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Corps du roi, doctrine
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Double corps du roi, doctrine
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-Z6KS4F4Z-6
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