Journal article
On the knees of the body politic
- Abstract:
- This paper analyzes the fullest theoretical elaboration of the doctrine of the King’s Two Bodies in the Elizabethan period, Edmund Plowden’s Treatise on the Succession (1567). It argues that Plowden here deploys the King’s Two Bodies not, as has been thought, as a legal proof against the foreign birth of Mary Queen of Scots, but as a way of embodying and sacralizing the disputed historical relations of England and Scotland. Plowden’s sacralizing metaphors of embodiment transform the highly contentious English claim of Scotland’s historic vassalage into the indisputable and timeless truth of political theology.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1525/rep.2020.152.2.25
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- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Journal:
- Representations More from this journal
- Volume:
- 152
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 25–54
- Publication date:
- 2020-10-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1533-855X
- ISSN:
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0734-6018
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1111008
- Local pid:
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pubs:1111008
- Deposit date:
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2020-09-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Regents of the University of California
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California.
- Notes:
- This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from the University of California Press at: https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2020.152.2.25
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