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Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser on Transnational Governance and the Future of Christendom

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Brian C. Lockey
Brian C. Lockey*
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Abstract

This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of European religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, amid the perceived Ottoman threat to Christendom. In their fictional works, these authors imagine an overarching authority that might replace the traditional papal power of oversight and deposing in order to regulate temporal sovereigns and foster a unity of Christian princes within Europe. Even as they can be read as reimagining Christendom, their fictional works reflect what Charles Taylor has called the “disenchantment” of sacred spaces within his philosophical history of the emergence of secularity within European cultures.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , Summer 2021 , pp. 369 - 411
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