{"product_id":"land-and-lordship-structures-of-governance-in-medieval-austria-hardback-9780812281835","title":"Land and Lordship; Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria (Hardback) 9780812281835","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand and Lordship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStructures of Governance in Medieval Austria\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOtto Brunner (Author), Howard Kaminsky (Edited and translated by), James Van Horn Melton (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812281835\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 April 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e498 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.854 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtto 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 a \"state\" in the modern sense nor any distinction between the public and private spheres.\u003cbr\u003e Behind the apparent disorder of late medieval political life, however, Brunner discovered a coherent legal and constitutional order rooted in the the rights and obligations of noble lordship. In carefully reconstructing this order, Brunner's study weaves together social, legal, constitutional, and intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685389529368,"sku":"9780812281835","price":53.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-and-lordship-structures-of-governance-in-medieval-austria-hardback-9780812281835","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}