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

ISBN-13: 9781138213012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016

Andrew Latham

Opis

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.

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.