Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria - Couverture rigide

Brunner, Otto

 
9780812281835: Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0812281837 ISBN 13 : 9780812281835
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

Synopsis

Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Whereas a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary society, such a dichotomy could not be projected back onto the Middle Ages. Focusing particularly on forms of lordship in late medieval Austria, Brunner found neither a "state" in the modern sense nor any distinction between the public and private spheres.

Behind the apparent disorder of late medieval political life, however, Brunner discovered a coherent legal and constitutional order rooted in the the rights and obligations of noble lordship. In carefully reconstructing this order, Brunner's study weaves together social, legal, constitutional, and intellectual history.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812281837
ISBN 13 
9780812281835
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
498
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Personne responsable
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