1. Body Politic in Aracadia
... , one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. The body politic is a concept born in a platonic world of ideals, eternal and a paradigm of political leadership, magnanimity, entirely separate from the body natural, this division enabled Elizabeth to disassociate her role as Queen from her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the ... aimed primarily at Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart therefore to accommodate Elizabeth a body politic was created "out of a combination of faith, ingenuity and practical expediency" . Elizabeth further d...
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