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BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is no comprehensive discussion of the topic. Various
aspects are treated in R. Allers, “Microcosmus from
Anaximandros to Paracelsus,” Traditio, 2 (1944), 319-407; P.
Archambault, “The Analogy of the 'Body' in Renaissance
Political Literature,” Bibliotèque d'humanisme et renais-
sance,
29 (1967), 21-53; N. O. Brown, Love's Body (New
York, 1966); A.-H. Chroust, “The Corporate Idea and the
Body Politic in the Middle Ages,” Review of Politics, 9
(1947), 423-52; F. W. Coker, Organismic Theories of the
State: Nineteenth-Century Interpretations of the State as
Organism or as Person
(New York, 1910); G. P. Conger,
Theories of Macrocosm and Microcosm in the History of
Philosophy
(New York, 1922); O. Gierke, Natural Law and
the Theory of Society,
trans. E. Barker, 2 vols. (Cambridge,
1934); idem, Political Theories of the Middle Ages, trans.
F. Maitland (Cambridge, 1900); D. G. Hale, The Body
Politic: A Political Metaphor in Renaissance English Litera-
ture
(The Hague, 1971); E. H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two
Bodies
(Princeton, 1957); E. Lewis, “Organic Tendencies in
Medieval Political Thought,” American Political Science
Review,
32 (1938), 849-76; H. de Lubac, Corpus Mysticum:
L'Eucharistie et l'église au moyen âge (Paris, 1949); W.
Nestle, “Die Fabel des Menenius Agrippa,” Klio, 21 (1927),
350-60; J. E. Phillips, The State in Shakespeare's Greek and
Roman Plays
(New York, 1940); E. M. W. Tillyard, The
Elizabethan World Picture
(London, 1943; New York, 1961).

DAVID G. HALE

[See also Class; Evolutionism; General Will; Health and
Disease; Macrocosm and Microcosm; Myth; Nature; Or-
ganicism.]