The Lutheran Reformation and the Birth of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty. On the Polymorphous Nature of «the religious» in the Early Modern Period
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Abstract
This paper aims at shedding light on the relationship between the Lutheran Reformation and the modern concept of sovereignty. In particular, it suggests a threefold articulation (political, normative and geographical) of such a religious fracture and it highlights how it contributed to the process of birth of the Nation State.
Keywords
- Sovereignty
- Religion
- Luther
- State
- Europe
