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Periodization and Sovereignty : How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (198 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812207415
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Periodization and SovereigntyDDC classification:
  • 901
LOC classification:
  • D16.9 -- .D295 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feudalism -- Chapter 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History -- Chapter 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property -- Part II. Secularization -- Chapter 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ''Middle Ages'' -- Chapter 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feudalism -- Chapter 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History -- Chapter 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property -- Part II. Secularization -- Chapter 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ''Middle Ages'' -- Chapter 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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