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THEORIZING MEDIEVAL GEOPOLITICS IBD

ROUTLEDGE
12 / 2011
9780415871846
Inglês

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Viewing the late Middle Ages (1250-1550) through the lens of what he calls the 'historical structure of war', Andrew Latham provides a fresh conceptualization of the geopolitics of late medieval Latin Christendom, emphasizing neither 'feudalism' nor 'heteronomy', but rather the emergence of the 'corporate-sovereign state', the 'corporate-sovereign Church' and 'Hobbesian-Lockean anarchy'. He goes on to demonstrate how this distinctive historical structure of war gave rise to a constellation of public and religious wars that was unique to late medieval Latin Christendom.