... discusses the act of forgiving in relation to self-understanding and distinguishes forgiveness from pardon, exoneration, and absolution. despair Pericles Wittgenstein Ludwig The Faerie Queene Spenser “the fair unknown ” in King Lear King Lear medieval drama romance genre Spenser Edmund...

...Its historical association with monarchical sovereignty has tarred pardoning with an illiberal brush. This Postlude examines Carl Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory, Political Theology and other writings to argue that the pardon resembles the sovereign decision...

... of absolute sanctions: to pardon, but also to kill. Universalism did not exempt sinners from punishment all in one stroke. It involved a struggle to recover the divine image in the soul. These concurrent efforts to deal with less than absolute guilt, pardonable offenses committed by those who can benefit from...

... on a conceptual level; in this instance, something like the pardon, which represented the act of sovereignty most closely linked with the singularity of the monarch, was itself generalized and transferred to Parliament instead of being exercised exclusively by the king. Act of Oblivion 1660 Charles II King...