Land and Lordship : Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria Hardback
by Otto Brunner
Part of the The Middle Ages Series series
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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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- Pages:498 pages
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:29/04/1992
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:498 pages
- Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date:29/04/1992
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- ISBN:9780812281835
