@inbook{10.2307/j.cttq9s1j.7,
 ISBN = {9780691142357},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.cttq9s1j.7},
 abstract = {Republican religion was born and spread in a late medieval Europe dominated by monarchies that, from the thirteenth century on, had endowed themselves with a sacred dimension similar to that of the church.¹ Jurists and political philosophers transferred the concept ofcorpus mysticum—intended to designate the church community as a body that cannot be seen by the eyes but can only be grasped by the intellect—to the state. Applied to the state, the concept of a mystical body referred mainly, but not exclusively, to the monarchy, where the king is at the head of the mystical-political body, just},
 author = {Maurizio Viroli and Alberto nones},
 booktitle = {As If God Existed: Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy},
 pages = {29--32},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {REPUBLICAN AND MONARCHICAL RELIGION},
 year = {2012}
}