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new political ideas of that age, indicating, for example,
that the royal Dignity never died and that in the image of
the dead king’s jurisdiction continued until the day he
was buried. Under the impact of those ideas—
strengthened by influences deriving from the medieval
tableaux vivants , the Italian trionfi , and the study as well
as the application of classical texts—the ceremonial
connected with the effigy began to be filled with new
contents and to affect fundamentally the funerary mood
itself: a new triumphal element came into the ceremony
which was absent in earlier times. (p. 423)
Kantorowicz here and in many other passages helps us to
understand how the analytic separation of functions was
steadily intensified by visual manifestation. The long passage
that follows (from pages 436 and 437 of The King’s Two