1. located bodies – five the sovereign body

4. feudal monarchy and after

5. land, earth, rank and identity
Bolingbroke as Hereford and Lancaster

6. lineage and succession
hereditary rights

7. the absolute monarch
divine right, anointment, by grace of God ( )

8. the king’s two bodies majesty embodied coronation – crown and king
the body of England
the king’s own body
NB also the many body metaphors

9. challenges to the absolute monarch
the English revolution (17th century) and after
republicanism – the res publica
the commons and the commonwealth

10. the issue of representation
a question of political philosophy and more
who is speaking when the political representative speaks?
what is the relation of language to action?
is it not merely ceremonial in Richard II?
representation and language
representation and the symbol ( and the Welsh captain)

11. the sovereign body what is its location?
the body politic – the prince, the representative, the commons