Concept information
Preferred term
King's Two Bodies, doctrine
Definition(s)
- 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
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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