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Bodies ) will reinforce the Huizinga themes and further illuminate
Shakespeare’s King Lear , which has a great relevance to the
Gutenberg motifs of the Renaissance:
Our rapid digression on funerary ceremonial, effigies,
and sepulchral monuments, though not directly related to
the rites observed for English kings, has nevertheless
yielded at least one new aspect of the problem of the
“two Bodies”—the human background. Never perhaps,
except in those “late Gothic” centuries, was the Western
mind so keenly conscious of the discrepancy between the
transience of the flesh and the immortal splendor of a
Dignity which that flesh was supposed to represent. We
understand how it could happen that the juristic
distinctions, though developing quite independently and
in a totally different thought compartment, eventually fell