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The Dual Body Politic or the Myth of Power? : The Ideology of sovereignty in the Orthodox Archbishopric within the Habsburg Empire
Todorović, Jelena
Abstract: The issue of the body politic is usually connected to the images of the absolutist power or at least to the visualizations of the grand sovereignty. This time-honored concept is most commonly associated with the power structures whose authority is unquestionable and constructed in such a way that that one only ponders how much of it is a political reality and how much a political fiction. The idea of the Body Politic through history was not the sole prerequisite of regal or monarchical institutions. It was also a mechanism, a formula of sovereigship that was often used not only to assert legitimacy but as the very tool of the legitimation itself, highly important for those entities whose existence on the European political scene was either uncertain or under a constant threat...
engleski
2007
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Key words: Body Politic, Orthodox Archbishopric of Karlovci, Austrian Habsburg Empire, Symbolism in politics