home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
08633_Field_TCGG T398.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
945b
|
16 lines
The division between the ruler’s private and his corporate
Dignity, elaborated by Italian jurists for centuries, flourished in
France, also. Kantorowicz quotes (p. 422) a French lawyer,
Pierre Grégoire, in the later sixteenth century, writing (as if he
were commenting of King Lear ): “The Majesty of God appears
in the Prince externally , for the utility of the subjects; but
internally there remains what is human.” And the great English
jurist Coke observed that the mortal king was God-made, but
the immortal King man-made.
Actually, the importance of the king’s effigy in the
funerary rites of the sixteenth century soon matched or
even eclipsed that of the dead body itself. Noticeable as
early as 1498, at the funeral of Charles VIII, and fully
developed in 1547, at the rites held for Francis I, the
display of the effigy was connected successively with the