Land and Lordship : : Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria / / Otto Brunner; James Van Horn Melton, Howard Kaminsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Brunner, Otto,
• HerausgeberIn: Kaminsky, Howard,; Melton, James Van Horn,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Translators' Introduction --; Authors Preface to the Fourth, Revised Edition (1959) --; I. Peace and Feud --; II. State, Law, and Constitution --; III. The Land and Its Law --; IV. House, Household, and Lordship --; V. Lordship over the Land, The Land-Community --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512801064; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512801064
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Otto Brunner; James Van Horn Melton, Howard Kaminsky.

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.