LEADER 04789nam 2200901Ia 450 001 9910824390503321 005 20240418023246.0 010 $a1-283-89810-1 010 $a0-8122-0741-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207415 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104563 035 $a(OCoLC)802051773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703603 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11499980 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703603 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10692340 035 $a(PQKB)11182930 035 $a(DE-B1597)449534 035 $a(OCoLC)979577066 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441666 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576107 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421060 035 $a(OCoLC)932312495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441666 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104563 100 $a20071231d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeriodization and sovereignty$b[electronic resource] $ehow ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time /$fKathleen Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2412-4 311 $a0-8122-4083-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. Feudalism -- $t1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History -- $t2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property -- $tPart II. Secularization -- $t3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ''Middle Ages'' -- $t4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aDespite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.This book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of "feudalism" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of "secularization," which grounds itself in a period divide between a "modern" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped "Middle Ages" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics.The problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which "feudalism" and "secularization" govern the politics of time. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aHistory$xPeriodization 606 $aHistory$xPolitical aspects 606 $aTime$xPolitical aspects 606 $aCivilization, Medieval 606 $aCivilization, Modern 606 $aSovereignty 606 $aFeudalism 606 $aSecularization 606 $aHistory$xPhilosophy 606 $aHistoriography$xPhilosophy 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aHistory$xPeriodization. 615 0$aHistory$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aTime$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aCivilization, Medieval. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern. 615 0$aSovereignty. 615 0$aFeudalism. 615 0$aSecularization. 615 0$aHistory$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHistoriography$xPhilosophy. 676 $a901 700 $aDavis$b Kathleen$f1952-$0763190 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824390503321 996 $aPeriodization and Sovereignty$91548158 997 $aUNINA