1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452656203321

Autore

Davis Kathleen <1952->

Titolo

Periodization and sovereignty [[electronic resource] ] : how ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time / / Kathleen Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008

ISBN

1-283-89810-1

0-8122-0741-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages series

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Periodization

History - Political aspects

Time - Political aspects

Civilization, Medieval

Civilization, Modern

Sovereignty

Feudalism

Secularization

History - Philosophy

Historiography - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feudalism -- 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History -- 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property -- Part II. Secularization -- 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ''Middle Ages'' -- 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization



together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.This book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of "secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a "modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped "Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics.The problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization" govern the politics of time.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388587703316

Autore

Quarles Francis <1592-1644.>

Titolo

Argalus and Parthenia [[electronic resource] ] : the argument of ye history. Newly perused perfected and written by Francis Quarles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Iohn Marriot in Saint Dimstons Church-yard Fleetstreet, [ca. 1635]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 152, [6]

Altri autori (Persone)

SidneyPhilip, Sir,  <1554-1586.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In verse.

Based on a story in: Sidney, Sir Philip.  Arcadia.

The title page is engraved and signed: Tho: Cecill sculp.

Publication date conjectured by STC.

The first leaf contains "The minde of the frontispiece" on verso.

In this edition the last numbered page is 152; book II line 1 ends: clear,.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University. Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698689203321

Titolo

Hair loss (Alopecia) [[electronic resource] /] / National Cancer Institute

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bethesda, Md.] : , : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet : digital, PDF file

Collana

Managing chemotherapy side effects (National Cancer Institute (U.S.))

NIH publication ; ; no. 08-6508

Soggetti

Baldness - Treatment

Cancer - Chemotherapy - Complications - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Dec. 22, 2008).

"Printed August 2008."