With this formidable reminder that "we have never been secular" . . . Kathleen Biddick expands the historical and theoretical horizon of our reflections on sovereignty and the biopolitical, opening anew the "medieval archives of violence." She does so unexpectedly by way of tears and treason, zombies and machines, the (current) prison and "the panopticon's two bodies," surveillance and abandonment, the tree of life and the "excarnated" Jews and Muslims of the warfare (and wafer) state. Who better than Biddick could follow with such dexterous refinement the "medieval traces" inscribed in the...