Diverging paths?
Subtitle: the shapes of power and institutions in medieval Christendom and Islam
By: edited by John Hudson, Ana Rodriguez
Contributors: Rodríguez López, Ana
Series: The medieval Mediterranean -- 101
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9789004277366; 9789004277878
Subjects: Western Civilization; Islamic influences; Islamic civilization; Western influences; Islamic law; History; Law; East and West
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Comparing medieval institutions: a few introductory remarks/ Gadi Algazi; title: 2. Institutionalisation between theory and practice: comparative approaches to medieval Islamic and late Roman law / Caroline Humfress; title: 3. The Ḥisba, the Muḥtasib and the Struggle over Political Power and a Moral Economy: An Enquiry into Institutions / Eduardo Manzano and Susana Narotzky; title: 4. Codification in Byzantium from Justinian to Leo VI / Bernard H. Stolte; title: 5. Codification in the Western Middle Ages / Emanuele Conte and Magnus Ryan; title: 6. Codifying the Law: The Case of the Medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro; title: 7. Law and Codification Conclusion / John Hudson; title: 8. The Cost of States: Politics and Exactions in the Christian West (Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries) / Sandra Caracci and Simone McOllavini; title: 9. Landholding and Law in the Early Islamic State / Hugh Kennedy; title: 10. The Mobilisation of Fiscal Resources in the Byzantine Empire: (Eighth to Eleventh Centuries) / Vivien Prigent; title: 11. State, Aggregation of the Elites and Redistribution of Resources in Sicily in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; title: Proposals for a new interpretation / Annliese Nef; title: 12. Resources and Power; title: Conclusion / Eduardo Manzano; title: 13. The Palace Complex / Stuart Airlie; title: 14. Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms / Simon MacLean; title: 15. Monasteries: Institutionalisation and Organisation of Space in the Byzantine world until the end of the twelfth century / Michel Kaplan; title: 16. The institutionalisation of Abbasid ceremonial / Nadia Maria El Cheikh; title: 17. Palaces and Places: Conclusion / Ana Rodriguez; title: Bibliography; title: Index.