Ernst Kantorowicz's central image of the king's doubled body has been very influential, but his main concern, medieval constitutional history, has gone largely unnoticed. His long-term constitutional narrative has hardly been discussed, and his methodological endeavor—he once called it "constitutional semantics"—has not left much of an impression on medieval scholarship. Both—his narrative and his methodological endeavor—are far from being outdated.
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