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Land and Lordship : Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria /
Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the nineteenth-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Whereas a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary so...
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| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1992.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Translators' Introduction; Author's Preface to the Fourth, Revised Edition (1959); Chapter I. Peace and Feud; 1. Politics and the feud; 2. Four Feuds: An Introduction to the Problem; 3. Basic Concepts; 4. The Feud in Practice and in Law; a) The Legal Foundation; b) The Obligation to Feud; c) A Legal Complaint as the Precondition of a Lawful Feud; d) Those Entitled to Feud and Those Who Feuded; e) The Challenge; f) The Means of Feuding; g) Limits to the Feud; h) Consequences of the Feud; i) Peace (Reconciliation); 5. Feud, State, and the Law.
- Chapter II. State, Law, and Constitution1. State" and Society
- 2. Constitutional History as the History of Constitutional Law; 3. The Medieval View of Law; 4. The Controversy over the German Medieval State; 5. Our Task; Chapter III. The Land and Its Law; 1. The Land, or a Unit of Territorial Supremacy?; 2. The Nature of the Land; 3. The Individual Territories; 4. The Constitution of the Land: Basic Features; Chapter IV. House, Household, and Lordship; 1. Lordship over Peasants (Grundherrschaft, the Seigneury); a) Seigneury or Great Estate?; b) The House as the Nucleus of All Lordship.
- C) The Substance of Lordshipd) Protection and Safeguard; e) Aid and Counsel; f) Imposts, Corvee, Military Obligation; g) Advocacy (Vogtei); h) The Hierarchy of Lordship Rights; i) Immunity; j) The Structure of Seigneury (Grundherrschaft); k) The Relationship Between Seigneur and Subject Peasants; 2. Town Lordship (Lordship over Burgher Communities); 3. Feudal Tenures: Ecclesiastical and Lay; Chapter V. Lordship over the Land, The Land-Community; 1. Lordship over the Land; a) The Territorial Prince (Landesherr) as Head of the Territorial Community.
- B) The Land Lord (Landesherr) as Lord of the Landc) General Protection; d) Blood Justice (Blutbann) in the Lower Territorial Courts; Regalian Rights; Feudal Overlordship; e) Specific Protection; f) The Fisc in the Wider Sense: Prelates and Towns; g) The Fisc in the Narrow Sense; h) The Concept of Lordship over the Land; i) Lordship over the Land and Sovereignty; 2. The People of the Land; a) The Theory of the Medieval Estates; b) The Organization of the Land into Estates; 3. The Relationship Between the Lord of the Land and the People of the Land; a) Diet and Estates in the Prevailing View.
- B) The Oath of Fealty (Homage)c) Joint Action in Judicial and Military Matters; d) Reciprocal Transactions; e) The Development of the ""Dualism"" of Prince and Estates; 4. Summary; Glossary; B; F; G; H; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; V; W; Bibliography; Index; SUBJECT INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; AUTHOR INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.