Land and Lordship - Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria (Hardcover)

Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Whereas a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary society, such a dichotomy could not be projected back onto the Middle Ages. Focusing particularly on forms of lordship in late medieval Austria, Brunner found neither a "state" in the modern sense nor any distinction between the public and private spheres. Behind the apparent disorder of late medieval political life, however, Brunner discovered a coherent legal and constitutional order rooted in the the rights and obligations of noble lordship. In carefully reconstructing this order, Brunner's study weaves together social, legal, constitutional, and intellectual history.

General

Imprint:	University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Middle Ages Series
Release date:	April 1992
Authors:	Otto Brunner
Editors:	Howard Kaminsky • James Van Horn Melton
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	498
ISBN-13:	978-0-8122-8183-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8122-8183-7
Barcode:	9780812281835

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