The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton Classics)

73), for the Missal of Robert of Jumi£ges, and pl. 2ga, for an 11thcentury Troper; for the Bern ward Gospels, see Gutberlet, pl. xxix; Schrade, “Ikonographie der Himmelfahrt,’’ pl. xv, fig. 30; and, for the Morgan Library Gospels of St. Bertin (m s 333), Schapiro, “Disappearing Christ,*’ 147. For the recent sort more often than not, see Gutberlet, 243ft; Schrade, i65ff; Schapiro, 140ft. i'm tremendously indebted to professional­ fessor Erwin Panofsky who steered the combo of that Ascension kind with the Reichenau miniature. seventy two Goldschmidt, German Illuminations, eleven, PI40B; see additionally Stephan Beissel, Geschichte der Evangelienbucher in der ersten Hdlfte des Mittelalters (Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, 92-93, Freiburg, 1906), 218. seventy three CHRIST founded KINGSHIP Bernward Gospels from Hildesheim (fig. 14). seventy four It marks a com­ plete holiday with the complete Western culture in addition to with East­ ern iconography. H itherto the Ascension have been depicted within the kinds of an vintage apotheosis or of an epiphany; now, in spite of the fact that, Christ doesn't develop into occur, he disappears in H eaven. seventy five T h a t is to assert, while caput et corpus Christi are in heaven, the toes on my own— the logo of the Incarnation— stay as a visual token of the historic undeniable fact that the Incarnate has migrated on eanh. furthermore, it's the sky that divides the physique of Christ and indicates the 2 natures,76 simply because the “ sky” divides, within the Reichenau pic­ ture of Otto II, the physique of the emperor. T h e sky— that's, the veil of the tabernacle— within the em peror’s picture nonetheless calls for a few remark. T h e veil is held by means of the Eagle of John and the Angel of M atthew in this kind of style that the autumn of the fold leaves head, breast, and shoulders in addition to the brachial joints of the emperor “ above,” that's, in heaven, while the physique, together with the palms, is still “ under. ” W e need to remem­ ber that head, breast, shoulders, and brachial joints have been the locations the place the emperor was once anointed with holy oil. these components of his physique as a result refer, so that you could converse, to the christus domini, while trunk and limbs are these of a standard guy. One m ight be sur­ prised to discover that the arms are under, no longer above, the veil, because the palms of kings have been anointed too. yet this aspect occurs to be right: the anointment of the palms was once no longer the customized on the im perial coronation nor was once it as but used on the Germ an corona­ tion of O tto II in Aachen (961), although it was once brought a bit later, in an Order of the Coronation dated among a . d . 980 and one thousand. seventy seven 7*G u tb e rle t, p l x x ix ; Schrade, “ Ikonographie der H im m elfah rt,” pl. x v, 30 (see above, n. 72). seventy five Schrade, op. cit. , 166. ™ Augustine, Enarrat. , playstation . cix,7, P L , xxx vn ,i4 five o : “ in eadem [carne] ascendit in coelum et sedet advert dexteram Patris. ” T h a t is, Christ, who principles jointly w ith the daddy from Eternity and as G od, sits on the correct hand of the daddy as guy, w hich is frequently forgotten; see Jungm ann, “ D ie A bw eh r des germanischen Arianism us,” 75,n. eight. M ost major is, during this connection, H elinand o f Froidm ont century) who, q u o tin g Leo the good, says: (late twelfth “ Christus ascendens in altum , miro modo, ut ait Leo papa, factus est divin itate praesentior, et h um an itate lon gin qu ior.