Periodization and Sovereignty : : How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time / / Kathleen Davis.
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Feudalism
- 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
- 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property
- Part II. Secularization
- 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ''Middle Ages''
- 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments