Ralph E. Giesey
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
2004
The common theme of these essays is the emergence of the modern state in late medieval and renaissance France. They examine on the one hand how the image of the king was enhanced in a variety of royal ceremonials as well as in the political writings of Jean Bodin and Cardin le Bret. The limits of the sovereign's authority on the other hand were forcefully enunciated in the works of Fran?ois Hotman and Th?odore de B?ze. The stability of the monarchy was maintained by the noblesse de robe a new form of hereditary nobility that virtually owned the high judicial and administrative offices they held. The last two articles are devoted first to the author's view of the concept of the French king's ?two bodies? and second to the life of his mentor Ernst H. Kantorowicz who wrote the seminal work The King's Two Bodies.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
2004
The common theme of these essays is the emergence of the modern state in late medieval and renaissance France. They examine on the one hand how the image of the king was enhanced in a variety of royal ceremonials as well as in the political writings of Jean Bodin and Cardin le Bret. The limits of the sovereign's authority on the other hand were forcefully enunciated in the works of Fran?ois Hotman and Th?odore de B?ze. The stability of the monarchy was maintained by the noblesse de robe a new form of hereditary nobility that virtually owned the high judicial and administrative offices they held. The last two articles are devoted first to the author's view of the concept of the French king's ?two bodies? and second to the life of his mentor Ernst H. Kantorowicz who wrote the seminal work The King's Two Bodies.