POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Feudalism, Basileus
16 Feb 2013
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No state able to perform these varied functions by power (or influence) alone. In antiquity, locus of supreme political authority located in particular institutions and individuals: nswt, oba, basileus, imperator,pontifex, maximus, consul. However, the idea of supreme political authority not well articulated. Supreme political authority as an articulated idea. Emergence of ideology of supreme political authority: the idea of sovereignty. The ability to make decisions indigenously (rather than to be ruled by others) = independence. The ability to make decisions as one pleases = autonomy. Starting over: looking at sovereignty as an idea that emerged in europe, at a particular era in time, grew out of the contradictions of the feudal way of organizing political authority. Authority organized: local, international (or pan-european, the church as a state. What sustained the feudal order: religious in particular the authority of the pope, economic the nature of the economy, military technology, cosmological.
