EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Wield, San Lorenzo, Florence
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From instability to stability, uncertainty to certainty . About the role of the church (in politics)? (no separation of earthly and. (city states; republics and principalities; at war with each other, also with foreign powers) Worse than babylon, sodom and gomorrah, etc . ( two kingdoms theory ; religion is about salvation, governments are about. On the one hand, they also have their difficulties ; on the other, sustained by the ancient ordinances of religion . And some hints at how to maintain power . (for example, play powers off each other) (pope julius found new ways to raise money?!) There"s a historical irony here around 1513-1527. Irony: he concludes with a reference to the power of leo x! Shortly after writing this, luther writes to him and there is the schism in this. Machiavelli clearly did not call for the separation of religious/spiritual and.
