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Sanctified Tyrannicide: Tyranny and Theology in John Ponet's Shorte Treatise of Politike Power and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

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  • Sanctified Tyrannicide: Tyranny and Theology in John Ponet’s Shorte Treatise of Politike Power and Edmund Spenser’s

  • I argue that Ponet casts prayer as preparation for a tyrannicide that, like baptism, will remove a dark spiritual influence from the body politic and bring salvation to the nation

  • Since Ponet presents the devil as inspiring the tyrant, tyrannicide like baptism becomes a rejection of Satan’s oppression in both the secular and spiritual realms

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Sanctified Tyrannicide: Tyranny and Theology in John Ponet’s Shorte Treatise of Politike Power and Edmund Spenser’s.

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