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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (498 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812281835
  • 9781512801064
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321/.3/09436 20
LOC classification:
  • JN1623 .B7513 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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