Henry VII and Lombard cities (1311), between political flexibility and authority: preliminary notes
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/415Keywords:
Henry VII, Empire, citiesAbstract
During his first months in Italy Henry VII acts now as rex pacificus, chosen by the communities as peace’s guarantor, now as emperor-judge, fully conscious of being selected from God’s will, now as a compliant politician, now as an authoritarian rights’ holder, now as a merciful ruler, now as an inflexible one. He adjusts to different city interlocutors and contexts two unlike and opposite sovereignty’s concepts, which are the outcome at times of a local collective will, at times of an unquestionable universal authority. This behaviour proves his political realism beyond his need to protect the Empire’s “symbolic capital”.
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