Sovereignty.
- Author / Editor
- Mills, Robert.
Sovereignty.
- Published
- Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 269-83.
- Description
- Describes sovereignty in CT (particularly ParsT) as "a legitimate means of exercising power, distributed hierarchically but founded on the idea of mutual responsibility and equality in the eyes of God." Explores how, in light of this concept, "Havelock the Dane" conceals "beneath the façade" of distinguishing between "good and bad rule" that "politicization of life" is a "means of realizing power." Uses theorizations of power and sovereignty by Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and Carl Schmitt, and applies the concept of sovereignty to historical periodization, following Kathleen Davis.
- Alternative Title
- A Handbook of Middle English Studies
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Parson and His Tale