Sacra Sacrorum
I am teaching a graduate seminar at Berkeley this term on the theme of 'Sovereignty and Sacrality.' This is partly a trial run for a new book I'm writing. We spent the first month or so working our way through Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben. We now are working our way backwards, starting with one of the most important sources for both Schmitt's and Agamben's theory of the state of exception - Jean Bodin.
There is one passage in Bodin's famous chapter on the jura majestatis - a reference to the regalia majora discussed by Baldus:
| Bodin, De Republica Libri VI Paris: Jacques Du Puys, 1591: I.x |
If I can find a more concrete connection, I will try to discuss the evidence I've located at my next public engagement - later this month at Florida, where I'll be giving one of the plenary lectures.