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Continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6427264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn A Steinberg (College of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1072-1085 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2024.2354030 |
| OpenAlex | W4397050706 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 29 |
The constitutional monarchy of present-day Britain hardly seems the same sort of institution as fourteenth-century feudal kingdoms, but Dante's Monarchia (c. 1313) and Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1872) share fundamental assumptions about what the purpose and strengths of monarchy are. In the Monarchia, Dante lays out the essential attributes of monarchy that endure even today: authority, impartiality, and unity. Dante values and promotes monarchy as final arbiter of conflicts, sole just judge without cupidity, and unifying will. More than 550 years later, Bagehot, despite his distrust concerning the Crown's actual effectiveness, conceives of monarchy in surprisingly similar terms. The monarch is 'the regulating wheel of our Constitution', an authority outside and above partisan politics, and the 'dignified', 'intelligible', unifying element of government. In both cases, the monarch functions as the government's source of impartial, unifying authority – whether monarch or Parliament ultimately wields that authority. The broad outlines of monarchy are surprisingly similar for both writers, suggesting a basic continuity in the conceptualization of monarchy from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (and beyond) and an abiding store of reserve symbolism within the monarchic concept that writers, thinkers, and politicians throughout those centuries are able to tap at will
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |