The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England

by Jennifer R. Rust

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129310
• ISBN13: 9780810129313
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"