The article sets out the nexus between the hermeneutical outlook of the medieval Christian world and the processes of state formation that marked the transition from the medieval to the early modern period. Emergent early modern states drew on the medieval hermeneutical system and its interpretive tools as source of their own legitimation. This process generated a mass of documentary evidence, including the various and varied texts produced by the clerical interlocutors of sovereigns: a real political literature consisting not only of explicitly political treatises and mirrors of princes, but also of letters, sermons, and even hagiographical texts, united by their incorporation of political categories in a Christian vision of the world.
Christian Exegesis and Political Practice: A Case Study of Medieval and Early Modern Savoy
Laura Gaffuri
2017-01-01
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The article sets out the nexus between the hermeneutical outlook of the medieval Christian world and the processes of state formation that marked the transition from the medieval to the early modern period. Emergent early modern states drew on the medieval hermeneutical system and its interpretive tools as source of their own legitimation. This process generated a mass of documentary evidence, including the various and varied texts produced by the clerical interlocutors of sovereigns: a real political literature consisting not only of explicitly political treatises and mirrors of princes, but also of letters, sermons, and even hagiographical texts, united by their incorporation of political categories in a Christian vision of the world.
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