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Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Politic

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance -- Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England -- The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England -- Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello -- Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire -- Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter -- John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse -- "To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels -- Into other arms: Amoret's evasion -- Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs -- The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time -- Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric -- My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher -- Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love -- New English Sodom -- Afterword -- Notes on contributors -- Index