For Conscience and Kingdom Martyrs, Monarchs and the Spirit of Modernity in Early Modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3125484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clayton Fordahl (0000-0002-0585-1360, University of Memphis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975619000018 |
| OpenAlex | W2940300144 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article compares the collective commemoration of martyrs to ascertain changes in cultural understandings of the relationship between the ultimate sacrifice offered by an individual and monarchal violence. This historical comparison is used to argue that changes in the nature of Christianity transformed the popular interpretation of sovereign violence from a desecrative to a redemptive force. While cultural individualism and political statism appear in secularized modernity as contradictory impulses, their birth in early modernity was induced by coherent and entirely consistent religious worldview
Christianity · Conscience · Individualism · Interpretation (philosophy) · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Secularization · Sociology · Sovereignty · Statism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
Kings or People
ONE. The Liberalism of Fear
The Liberalism of Fear
“A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House
Church and State in Early Modern England 1509-1640
The Compromise of Avranches of 1172 and the Spread of Canon Law in England
Kings and sons
Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism
Fools, Martyrs, Traitors
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |