Land and lordship : structures of governance in medieval Austria
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Land and lordship : structures of governance in medieval Austria
（Middle Ages series）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992
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Land und Herrschaft : Grundfragen der territorialen Verfassungsgeschichte Österriechs [i.e. Österreichs] im Mittelalter
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Translation of: Land und Herrschaft : Grundfragen der territorialen Verfassungsgeschichte Österriechs [i.e. Österreichs] im Mittelalter
"Translated from the fourth, revised edition"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Otto 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.
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.
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