Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time

by Kathleen Davis

Book Overview

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224124
• ISBN13: 9780812224122
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"