Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time 9780812207415
By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davi
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English Pages 200 [197] Year 2012
Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Feudalism
1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property
Part II. Secularization
3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ‘‘Middle Ages’’
4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
