The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages

by Walter Ullmann

Book Overview

This book, which is based on three guest lectures given at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, explores the place of the individual in medieval European society. Looking at legal sources and political ideology of the era, Ullmann concludes that, for most of the Middle Ages, the individual was defined as a subject rather than a citizen, but the modern concept of citizenship gradually supplanted the subject model from the late Middle Ages onward. Ullmann...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421433974
• ISBN13: 9781421433974
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"