Politics And Society During The Early Medieval Period
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Politics and Society During the Early Medieval Period
Author | : Mohammad Habib |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Indian history.
The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Author | : Walter Ullmann |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421433982 |
Originally published in 1966. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages, based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann lays out the theological basis of the political theory that cast the medieval individual as an inferior, abstract subject. The individual citizen who emerged during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by contrast, was an autonomous participant in affairs of state. Several intellectual trends made this humanistic conception of the individual possible, among them the rehabilitation of vernacular writing during the thirteenth century and the growing interest in nature, natural philosophy, and natural law. However, Ullmann points to feudalism as the single most important medieval institution that laid the groundwork for the emergence of the modern citizen.
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Author | : Matthew Innes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2000-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139425587 |
This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, this book focuses on a uniquely well-documented area to investigate the basis of power. Topics covered include the foundation of monasteries, their relationship with the laity, and their role as social centres; the significance of urbanism; the control of land, the development of property rights and the organization of states; community, kinship and lordship; justice and dispute settlement; the uses of the written word; violence and the feud; and the development of political structures from the Roman empire to the high Middle Ages.
Negotiating Space
Author | : Barbara H. Rosenwein |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501718681 |
Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties, as historians have traditionally believed? In a richly detailed book that will be greeted as a landmark addition to the literature on the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein argues that immunities were markers of power. By placing restraints on themselves and their agents, kings demonstrated their authority, affirmed their status, and manipulated the boundaries of sacred space.Rosenwein transforms our understanding of an institution central to the political and social dynamics of medieval Europe. She reveals how immunities were used by kings and other leaders to forge alliances with the noble families and monastic centers that were central to their power. Generally viewed as unchanging juridical instruments, immunities as they appear here are as fluid and diverse as the disparate social and political conflicts that they at once embody and seek to defuse. Their legacy reverberates in the modern world, where liberal institutions, with their emphasis on state restraint, clash with others that encourage governmental intrusion. The protections against unreasonable searches and seizures provided by English common law and the U.S. Constitution developed in part out of the medieval experience of immunities and the institutions that were elaborated to breach them.
Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe
Author | : Janet Laughland Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India
Author | : Daud Ali |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521816274 |
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State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Author | : Matthew Innes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2000-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521594554 |
This book shows just how much can be discovered about the so-called "Dark Ages," between the fall of Rome and the high Middle Ages. Whereas it is believed widely that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of social and political relationships, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages offers a detailed analysis of the workings of society at the heart of Charlemagne's empire, and suggests the need to rethink our understanding of political power in this period.
Family, Friends and Followers
Author | : Gerd Althoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521779340 |
A study of how bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship shaped medieval European political life.
The Evolution of the Medieval World
Author | : David M Nicholas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2014-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317895428 |
This ambitious and wide-ranging study of the European Middle Ages respects the complexity and richness of its subject; always accessible, it is never merely superficial or over-simplistic. Stressing the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and change throughout, David Nicholas discusses the social and economic aspects of medieval civilization, and examines their links with political, institutional and cultural development. Designed for students and non-specialists, his book triumphantly meets the need for a comprehensive survey of the medieval world within the covers of a single authoritative volume.