Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria Contributor(s): Brunner, Otto (Author), Kaminsky, Howard (Editor), Kaminsky, Howard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0812281837 ISBN-13: 9780812281835 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $80.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1992 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
Dewey: 321.309 |
LCCN: 91031649 |
Series: Middle Ages |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.81 lbs) 498 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |