{"product_id":"periodization-and-sovereignty-how-ideas-of-feudalism-and-secularization-govern-the-politics-of-time-paperback","title":"Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a \"medieval\" and a \"modern\" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. \u003ci\u003ePeriodization and Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of \"the Middle Ages\" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book's groundbreaking investigation of feudal historiography finds that the historical formation of \"feudalism\" mediated the theorization of sovereignty and a social contract, even as it provided a rationale for colonialism and facilitated the disavowal of slavery. Sovereignty is also at the heart of today's often violent struggles over secular and religious politics, and Davis traces the relationship between these struggles and the narrative of \"secularization,\" which grounds itself in a period divide between a \"modern\" historical consciousness and a theologically entrapped \"Middle Ages\" incapable of history. This alignment of sovereignty, the secular, and the conceptualization of historical time, which relies essentially upon a medieval\/modern divide, both underlies and regulates today's volatile debates over world politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem of defining the limits of our most fundamental political concepts cannot be extricated, Davis argues, from the periodizing operations that constituted them, and that continue today to obscure the process by which \"feudalism\" and \"secularization\" govern the politics of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Davis is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and the author of Deconstruction and Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44291530096742,"sku":"9780812224122","price":49.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UGFyNmthVE05WllrRmpUOHFiaEJWdz09.webp?v=1766868494","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/periodization-and-sovereignty-how-ideas-of-feudalism-and-secularization-govern-the-politics-of-time-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}