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Author Davis, Kathleen, 1952- author.

Title Periodization and sovereignty : how ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time / Kathleen Davis
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (187 pages)
Series Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Sovereign subjects, feudal law, and the writing of history -- Feudal law and colonial property -- The sense of an epoch : secularization, sovereign futures, and the "Middle Ages" -- A political theology of time : the Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index
Notes In English
Subject History -- Periodization.
History -- Political aspects
Time -- Political aspects
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilization, Modern.
Sovereignty.
Feudalism.
Secularization.
History -- Philosophy.
Historiography -- Philosophy
sovereignty.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval
Civilization, Modern
Feudalism
Historiography -- Philosophy
History -- Periodization
History -- Philosophy
Secularization
Sovereignty
Time -- Political aspects
Geschichte
Periodisierung
Mittelalter
Neuzeit
Säkularisierung
Feudalismus
Periodisierung -- Mittelalter.
Geschichtswissenschaft -- Periodisierung.
Mittelalter -- Periodisierung.
Mittelalter -- Neuzeit.
Neuzeit -- Mittelalter.
Feudalismus -- (Begriff)
Souveränität -- (Begriff)
Säkularisation -- (Begriff)
Periodisierung -- Geschichtswissenschaft.
Geschichte (Begriff)
Periodisierung.
Mittelalter.
Neuzeit.
Säkularisierung.
Lehnswesen.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812207415
0812207416