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Absolute and Relative European Sovereignties: The Case of Mycenaean Polities – Critical Self-Restraint and Lawfulness

Starting from contemporary discussions in intellectual history of different conceptions of sovereignty, a brief opening presentation will center on a general, historically grounded idea of political sovereignty as a form of critical self-restraint. The ensuing seminar discussions will then take up this general philosophical informed idea of sovereignty in the historical contexts of its emergent historical origins in the early European political cultures of late Aegean Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization. A brief closing presentation will attempt to summarize the seminar discussions by linking the historical case study more tightly with several still outstanding conceptions of sovereignty as perhaps too exclusively political.

Reading Suggestions: R. Jackson, Sovereignty: Evolution of an Idea (Cambridge: Polity, 2007), Preface and pp. 1-23; and K. Shelton, “[Late Bronze Age] Mainland Greece,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, ed. E. H. Kline (Oxford: OUP, 2010), pp. 139-148.  

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