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Natur und Herrschaft
Analysen zur Physik der Macht
herausgegeben von Kay Peter Jankrift, Alexander Kagerer, Christian Kaiser und María Ángeles Martín RomeraThese conference proceedings address the shifting meanings, upheavals, invalidations, and validations linked to different perceptions of „natural“ rule. A focus is placed on widespread strategies for legitimizing and delegitimizing political office holders in pre-modern societies by means of recurrent recourse to „natural“ criteria marking an individual as distinct and qualified to lead.