The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty

To theorize Jain sovereignty, this essay takes up Ernst Kantorowicz’s underlying query of what happens when a king dies. In turning to medieval Jain authors such as Jinasena, we see how sovereignty and renunciation were mutually constituted such that the king’s renunciation completely subverts the p...

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Autor principal: Sarah Pierce Taylor
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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