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Using Concepts in Medieval History - Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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Using Concepts in Medieval History - Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the
practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the
Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts
in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a
means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured
in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past
have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately
influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is
'feudalism', whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R.
Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic.
The volume's contributors offer a series of case studies of other
concepts - 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic',
'networks' and 'politics' - that have been influential,
particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later
Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between
historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for
fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.
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