by Jon Lackman | 24 October 2006 | Awards, Medieval
Kristin Marek has received the 5,000-Euro Hertha and Werner Krauße Prize for her dissertation, Three Bodies of the King: The Visual Culture of the Effigy. Marek argues that in the Middle Ages there was a sacred body alongside the body politic and the body natural, as distinguished by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz. For example, kings in England and France legitimated their status by claiming to be capable of miraculous healing.
