Periodization and sovereignty
Subtitle: how ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time
By: Kathleen Davis.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780812240832
Subjects: History -- Periodization; History -- Political aspects; Time -- Political aspects; Civilization, Medieval; Civilization, Modern; Sovereignty; Feudalism; Secularization; History -- Philosophy; Historiography -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sovereign subjects, feudal law, and the writing of history; title: Feudal law and colonial property; title: The sense of an epoch : secularization, sovereign futures, and the "Middle Ages"; title: A political theology of time : the Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh.