John of Salisbury and the 'hermaphrodite' courtier

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Figure 1: New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, MS 456, fol. 5r (detail) via http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ ARTH_214images/Manuscripts/15_century/Chris_Front/ Body_Pol_avis_roi.jpg. Public domain. For discussion, see Sherman 1995, 216-217. Having posted on Kantorowicz' King's two bodies (https://intersex.hypotheses.org/3702) reminds me of John of Salisbury and his Policraticus, an important medieval source for the 'body politic' Kantorowicz was so interested in. This bo..