This paper analyzes the fullest theoretical elaboration of the doctrine of the King’s Two Bodies in the Elizabethan period, Edmund Plowden’s Treatise on the Succession (1567). It argues that Plowden here deploys the King’s Two Bodies not, as has been thought, as a legal proof against the foreign birth of Mary Queen of Scots, but as a way of embodying and sacralizing the disputed historical relations of England and Scotland. Plowden’s sacralizing metaphors of embodiment transform the highly contentious English claim of Scotland’s historic vassalage into the indisputable and timeless truth of political theology.

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在政治团体的膝盖上

本文分析了伊丽莎白时代对国王的两个身体学说的最全面的理论阐述，即埃德蒙·普劳登的《继承论》（1567）。它认为，普劳登在这里部署国王的两个身体并不是像人们认为的那样，作为反对苏格兰玛丽女王在外国出生的法律证据，而是作为体现和神圣化英格兰和苏格兰有争议的历史关系的一种方式。Plowden 对具身化的神圣化隐喻将英国对苏格兰历史附庸的高度争议性的主张转化为政治神学无可争辩和永恒的真理。