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Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power : The King's Body Never Dies by Karolina Anna Mroziewicz (editor); Aleksander Sroczynski (editor) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Theologians, historians, and jurists interpreted the king and his kingdom as a corporal reality, the body politic. The idea of the monarch as the embodiment of the community emerged from medieval European culture and endured for centuries, leaving a legacy that continues to affect political discourse. Within this book, thirteen essays provide case studies from premodern and contemporary European cultures that demonstrate the process by which political corporations, 'bodies politic', were and con
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- Author
- Karolina Anna Mroziewicz (editor); Aleksander Sroczynski (editor)
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789462983311
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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