System of Rule and Religion in the Early Modern Period
(Therese Schwager)
Religion, and in particular the biblical text, was an important basis of the norms and values used both to legitimate systems of rule and to dispute claims to power in the early modern period. The “Bible as political argument” helped to justify and to deny (new) normative orders.
Within the historical framework of the debates in European estate assemblies in the early modern period, the hypothesis—which this panel will explore—is that sanctions played a lesser role in shaping and confirming normative orders than did political-theological language. Case studies aimed at testing this hypothesis—focusing on the sacral legitimation of power and the theological or natural law foundations of resistance to power—are welcomed.
Finally, the European panorama of conflicts within the estate assemblies leads to the more general question of whether and to what extent the issue of religion and politics can be approached with the categories of “sanctions” and/or “narratives of justifications.”
Sonntag, 25.10.
IG Farben-Gebäude 457
13.00-13.30 Uhr
Lena Oetzel (Salzburg): Religion, Parlament und Königin: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603)
13.30-14.00 Uhr
Hannah Smith (Oxford): „Last of all the Heavenly Birth“: Queen Anne and Sacral Queenship
14.00-14.30
Diskussion
14.30-14.45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
14.45-15.15 Uhr
Maciej Ptaszyński (Warschau): Der Freiheitsbegriff in den Rechtfertigungsnarrativen der polnischen Protestanten im 16. Jahrhundert
15.15-15.45 Uhr
Stephanie Frank (Chicago): As the Church is to God, so the National Assembly is to France: Parallels in the Justificatory Narratives of Malebranche and Sieyès
15:45-16:15
Diskussion
