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‘Even if it meant exhibiting the reality of dissensus, it was obliged to lay bare the realities of the political sphere. It needed to produce belief and obedience, as propaganda was propaganda fides (the propagating of the faith), and the fides or faith that it propagated was, in mediaeval culture, an inseparable mixture of faith and fidelity’