{"product_id":"medieval-polities-and-modern-mentalities-paperback-9780521168632","title":"Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities (Paperback) 9780521168632","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedieval Polities and Modern Mentalities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of influential and challenging essays by Timothy Reuter, a British medievalist of extraordinary range.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTimothy Reuter (Author), Janet L. Nelson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521168632, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 9 September 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...Reuter draws his ideas from the latest scholarship and discusses complex ideas on an accessible level.\"  --Sarah Whitten, UCLA: Comitatus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a collection of influential and challenging essays by British medievalist Timothy Reuter, a perceptive and original thinker with extraordinary range who was equally at home in the Anglophone or German scholarly worlds. The book addresses three interconnected themes in the study of the history of the early and high Middle Ages. Firstly, historiography, the development of the modern study of the medieval past. How do our contemporary and inherited preconceptions and pre-occupations determine our view of history? Secondly, the importance of symbolic action and communication in the politics and polities of the Middle Ages. Finally, the need to avoid anachronism in our consideration of medieval politics. Throwing light both on modern mentalities and on the values and conduct of medieval people themselves, and containing articles, at time of publication, never previously been available in English, this book is essential reading for any serious scholar of medieval Europe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditor's note\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Editor's introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Modern Mentalities: Historiographies, Methodologies, Preconceptions: 1. Modern mentalities and medieval polities\u003cbr\u003e 2. Medieval: another tyrannous construct?\u003cbr\u003e 3. The insecurity of travel in the early and high Middle Ages: criminals, victims and their medieval and modern observers\u003cbr\u003e 4. Debating the 'feudal revolution'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pre-Gregorian mentalities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Whose race, whose ethnicity? Recent medievalists' discussion of identity\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Symbolic Language of Medieval Political Action: 7. Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e 8. Regemque, quem in Francia pene perdidit, in patria magnifice recepit: Ottonian ruler representation in synchronic and diachronic comparison\u003cbr\u003e 9. Contextualising Canossa: excommunication, penance, surrender, reconciliation\u003cbr\u003e 10. Velle sibi fieri in forma hac: symbolic action in the Becket dispute\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political Structures and Intentions: 11. Assembly politics in western Europe from the eighth century to the twelfth\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of Queen Uota\u003cbr\u003e 13. Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire\u003cbr\u003e 14. The end of Carolingian military expansion\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Ottonians and Carolingian tradition\u003cbr\u003e 16. The making of England and Germany, 850–1050: points of comparison and difference\u003cbr\u003e 17. Kings, nobles, others: 'basis' and 'superstructure' in the Ottonian period\u003cbr\u003e 18. The 'imperial church system' of the Ottonian and Salian rulers: a reconsideration\u003cbr\u003e 19. Peace-breaking, feud, rebellion, resistance: violence and peace in the politics of the Salian era\u003cbr\u003e 20. The medieval German Sonderweg? The empire and its rulers in the high Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e 21. Mandate, privilege, court judgement: techniques of rulership in the era of Frederick Barbarossa\u003cbr\u003e 22. All quiet except on the Western Front? The emergence of pre-modern forms of statehood in the central Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Educational: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Educational: History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Educational:%20History%20%5BYQH%5D%22\"\u003eYQH\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], Historiography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historiography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historiography%20%5BHBAH%5D%22\"\u003eHBAH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912961843480,"sku":"9780521168632","price":40.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521168632i_2b20d6c0-136a-446f-ba15-8d7a31537206.jpg?v=1691372875","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/medieval-polities-and-modern-mentalities-paperback-9780521168632","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}