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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, " Rust brings to bear the latest scholarship. Her book expands the representation of the "corpus mysticum" through a range of literary genres as well as...

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, " Rust brings to bear the latest scholarship. Her book expands the representation of the "corpus mysticum" through a range of literary genres as well as...

Examines the relationship between art and politics in the work of William Shakespeare and others in the early modern era, with a focus on the relation between aesthetics and sensory experience. This collection will be an important resource for students of Shakespeare and the Renaissance, and for those interested in political and aesthetic theory.