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21Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism. The theology of God’s power and its bearing on the western legal tradition, 1100–1600 Against the backdrop of sovereignty and absolutism. The theology of God’s power and its bearing on the western legal tradition, 1100–1600, by Massimiliano Traversino di Cristo. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 34. Leiden, Brill, 2022, xiv + 242 pp., €118.72 (hb), ISBN 978-90-04-50369-4 (review)Intellectual History Review 34 (2): 487-489. 2024.The keenly contested debates over the passage from the Middle Ages to modernity have steadily revealed how this transition was itself characterised by tensions and complexities. Narratives and inte...