- Animate Prince.
- See CDP, Prologue. The Latin references here are derived from Book I, Part II, Chapter XII of the De regimine principum (‘On kingship’) of the theologian Giles of Rome (c.1247-1316). See the translation of Ernst H. Kantorowicz in The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Theology (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, reprint 1997), p. 134: “the king or prince is a kind of Law, and the law is a kind of king or prince. For the Law is a kind of inanimate prince; the prince, however, a kind of animate Law. And in so far as the animate exceeds the inanimate the king or prince must exceed the Law”. [TA, AH]