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Alfonso de Cartagena on the affair of the Canaries (1436–37): humanist rhetoric and the idea of the nation-state in fifteenth–century Castile
Published 2013“…In doing so, the paper argues that Cartagena made an important theoretical step towards the early-modern concept of the ‘state’ as, in Quentin Skinner’s words, ‘the sole source of law and legitimate force within its own territ¬ory and [...] sole appropriate object of its citizens’ allegiances’. …”
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