structures of governance in medieval Austria
Edición de la obra Land and lordship
| Autor | Brunner, Otto |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1992 |
| Lugar | Philadelphia |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 425 |
| ISBN-10 | 0812281837 |
| OCLC | 24376624 |
| LCCN | 91031649 |
| Serie | Middle Ages series |
| Número de Cutter | B897l |
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.--