Produktnummer:
1800e4fe4bda5d4fca927ce9dae3e780f4
Themengebiete: | Analytical categories Anglophone historiography Conceptual history Historical ideas Interdisciplinary concepts Late medieval period Medievalist Medieval studies Political concepts Terminology |
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Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 25.01.2022 |
EAN: | 9783030772796 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 201 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Armstrong, Jackson W. Crooks, Peter Ruddick, Andrea |
Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
Untertitel: | Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500 |
Produktinformationen "Using Concepts in Medieval History"
This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

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