Brown, Elizabeth A. R. (Author)
Because of the work of Ernst H. Kantorowicz and Ralph E. Giesey, French royal transi tombs' display of images of both corpse and living ruler, like the use of effigies in royal funerals in medieval and Renaissance France, is widely thought to reflect and express a distinction between `the king's two bodies', his body politic and his body natural. The royal images, both statues and effigies, are thus interpreted as representations of the undying body politic, contrasted with the ruler's mortal body. In this article I discuss Kantorowicz's collaboration with Giesey, explore the genesis of their ideas concerning French royal tombs and effigies, and argue that their hypotheses owe more to Kantorowicz's flair for generalization and penchant for paradigms than to medieval and early modern ideas about dignitas, effigies, and skeletal funerary monuments, and the actual use and treatment of these images.
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