Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria

by Howard Kaminsky and Otto Brunner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281837
• ISBN13: 9780812281835
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"