Honorius+Augustodunensis,+On+the+Song+of+Songs

Honorius Augustodunensis was a biblical commentator in the early twelfth century. His Commentary on the Song of Songs depicts a woman with the head of the antichrist being decapitated by Jesus, displaying the same graphic, quasi-sexual imagery as that used by Machiavelli in his comparison of princely power to the rape of a woman. Shows that the new political rationality was not emotionally austere.