Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics : War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades

ISBN-13: 9780415871846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 204 str.

Andrew Latham

Opis

This text provides a theoretically guided and historically sensitive account of the geopolitical relations of medieval Latin Christendom. It does this by developing a theoretically informed picture of medieval geopolitics, theorizing the medieval-to-modern transition in a new and fruitful way.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Prologue  2. Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: Scope, Context, Historiography, Concepts  3. Public War: The Wars of the Corporate-Sovereign State  4. Religious War: The Wars of the Corporate-Sovereign Church  5. Epilogue  Appendix: The Crusades, 1095-1500  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Andrew Latham is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota. He teaches International Relations and Medieval Political Thought. His most recent publication is "Theorizing the Crusades: Identity, Institutions and Religious War in Medieval Latin Christendom," International Studies Quarterly, 2011, vol. 55, no. 1, 223–243.