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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)

Synonym(s)

  • Doctrine of the King's Two Bodies
  • Theory of the King's Two Bodies

Notation

  • 120416

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-Z6KS4F4Z-6

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