1. Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power
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Karolina Anna Mroziewicz, Aleksander Sroczynski, Pawel Figurski, Álvaro Carvajal Castro, Foteini Spingou, Wojciech Kozłowski, Ágnes Máté, Emilia Olechnowicz, Gábor Szegedi, Piotr Słodkowski, Andrzej Probulski, and Alexandra Ion
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Power (social and political) ,Politics ,Political science ,Political economy - Abstract
In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic. And while we've long since shed that view, it nonetheless continues to influence our understanding of contemporary politics. This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged. Drawing on history, archaeology, literary criticism, and art history, the contributors survey a wide geographical and chronological spectrum to offer a panoramic view of these dynamic political entities.
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- 2017
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