pp.116, ill. nel testo, Milano 2007 ISBN 978-88-87235-39-8.

SOMMARIO: Indice Index - Mónica Domínguez Torres, Heraldry and native Identity in 16th – Century New Spain: The case of Texcoco’s Coat of Arms (pp.9-23 8 figg.); Donato Mansueto, The spleen in the State. Emblematic illustration of some mysteria fisci (pp.25-41 8 figg.); Giuseppe Cascione, The double face of Sovereignty (pp.43-54 20 figg.); Sarah Covington, ‘England’s Body Bloodied’ Metaphor and the Wounded Body Politic in the 1640 (pp.55-68); Gabriel Guarino, ‘Miscebis Sacra profanis’: Viceregal Exaltation in Religious Rites and Ceremonies (pp.69-80) ; Jelena Todorovic, The Dual Body Politic or Myth of Power? The Ideology of sovereignty in the Orthodox Archbishopric within in Habsburg Empire (pp.81-99 10 figg.); Tony Perrello, “This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings” England’s Female Body Politic (pp.99-113 3 figg.)

This book presents a written version of seven papers given during the LII Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, held in San Francisco, on 23-25 March 2006. These papers were part of a triple panel on the subject Images of the Body Politic, focusing on the theory and representation of the national states between XV and XVII centuries. Our intention was to discuss B with reference to different contexts and different periods B the roles and functions of symbolic representations in the development of a "Apolitical theology".