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Negotiating Space - Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Negotiating Space - Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be
immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own
agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from
entering these properties, as historians have traditionally
believed? In a richly detailed book that will be greeted as a
landmark addition to the literature on the Middle Ages, Barbara H.
Rosenwein argues that immunities were markers of power. By placing
restraints on themselves and their agents, kings demonstrated their
authority, affirmed their status, and manipulated the boundaries of
sacred space.Rosenwein transforms our understanding of an
institution central to the political and social dynamics of
medieval Europe. She reveals how immunities were used by kings and
other leaders to forge alliances with the noble families and
monastic centers that were central to their power. Generally viewed
as unchanging juridical instruments, immunities as they appear here
are as fluid and diverse as the disparate social and political
conflicts that they at once embody and seek to defuse. Their legacy
reverberates in the modern world, where liberal institutions, with
their emphasis on state restraint, clash with others that encourage
governmental intrusion. The protections against unreasonable
searches and seizures provided by English common law and the U.S.
Constitution developed in part out of the medieval experience of
immunities and the institutions that were elaborated to breach
them.
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