On the Knees of the Body Politic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorna Hutson (0000-0003-4712-6551, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-54 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2020.152.2.25 |
| OpenAlex | W3096222962 |
| Language | EN |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Body politic · Doctrine · Literature · Political science · Politics · Scots · History · Law · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |