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Periodization and Sovereignty - How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (Paperback)
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Periodization and Sovereignty - How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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 Ages" and
the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism. This book's
groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that
the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization
of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a
rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery.
Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles
over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the
relationship between these struggles and the narrative of
"secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a
"modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped
"Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty,
the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which
relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies
and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics. The
problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political
concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing
operations that constituted them, and that continue today to
obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization"
govern the politics of time.
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