Rebeliones Monstruosas y antinaturales. tiranicidio, brujería y los fundamentos de la soberanía en el pensamiento político de Jacobo VI de Escocia. \ Monstrous and Unnatural Rebelions. Tyrannicide, Witchcraft and the Foundations of Sovereignty in James VI of Scotland´s Political Thought.

Agustín Méndez

doi:10.12795/hid.2019.i46.09

Authors

Agustín Méndez University of Buenos Aires/CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/hid.2019.i46.09

Keywords:

Sovereignty, Tyrannicide, witchcraft, absolutism, political

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the foundations of sovereignty in James VI of Scotland´s political thought, as well as its relation with the birth of the political in Western Europe. The study will consider his stance on tyrannicide and witchcraft. By analyzing the king´s treatises, the article will focus on his theorizations about the origins of the political and the institutional order. Besides demonstrating the theological genesis of his stance, the next pages will aim to unravel the ideas by which the Stuart attempted to build his legitimacy as an absolute sovereign, as well as the relation with their immediate historical context.

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