Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:437152766
The Marxist Premodern
Anonim
The Marxist Premodern
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The Premodern Condition
Bruce Holsinger
Author : Bruce Holsinger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226349749
The Premodern Condition by Bruce Holsinger Pdf
Bruce Holsinger identifies and explains an affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. His book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated into English - that testify to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar writings.
Modernity in Indian Social Theory
A. Raghuramaraju
Author : A. Raghuramaraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199088362
Modernity in Indian Social Theory by A. Raghuramaraju Pdf
Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.
Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World
Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb
Author : Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432855
Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World by Serena Autiero,Matthew Adam Cobb Pdf
This book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes. In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts – from the Bronze Age to colonial times – humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of the human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections. This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look anew at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book a useful resource.
Handbook of Medieval Studies
Albrecht Classen
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588
Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
Richard Blanton,Lane Fargher
Author : Richard Blanton,Lane Fargher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780387738765
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States by Richard Blanton,Lane Fargher Pdf
Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift. Given the need for new directions in theory, the book proposes that anthropologists look to political science, especially the rational choice theory of collective action. The authors subject collective action theory to a methodologically rigorous evaluation using systematic cross-cultural analysis based on a world-wide sample of societies.
Character, Acting and Being on the Pre-modern Stage
Edward Burns
Author : Edward Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349095940
Character, Acting and Being on the Pre-modern Stage by Edward Burns Pdf
An analysis of acting and characterization on stage, covering theories of character from Aristotle to Brecht and approaches from formalism to post structuralism. The Early Theatre Group have, over the last 5 years, used an experimental approach to performing some of the plays written about here.
Reflections on the Marxist theory of history
Paul Blackledge
Author : Paul Blackledge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847791344
Reflections on the Marxist theory of history by Paul Blackledge Pdf
A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘End of History’, anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply ‘another world is possible’. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and that capitalism was just as much a historical mode of production, no more natural and certainly no less contradictory, than were the feudal and slave modes which proceeded it. Paul Blackledge opens this study with a defence of the Marxist approach to the study of history against what he argues as being the naive empiricism of traditional historians and the relativism of the postmodernists. He moves on to outline Marx and Engels analyses of concrete historical processes and their critiques of the alternative historiographic methodologies of their contemporaries. He then discusses neglected historical works produced by Marxists in the half-century or so after Marx and Engels’ deaths. Two central chapters survey recent Marxist debates on, first, the nature of modes of productions, including slave, feudal and tributary systems, and the revolutionary transitions between them; and, second, the methodological debate over the issue of structure and agency in the movement of history. Finally, he shows the political relevance of these debates through a concluding survey of competing Marxist attempts to periodise the present, postmodern, conjuncture. This book should be read by historians, students of cultural, social and political theory and anti-capitalist activists.
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World
Albrecht Classen
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110731798
Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World by Albrecht Classen Pdf
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.
A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare
Kaushik Roy
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432121
A Global History of Pre-Modern Warfare by Kaushik Roy Pdf
This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘global’ military history is actually the triumphal story of the West from Classical Greece onwards. This volume focuses not only on the eastern part of Eurasia but also on South America, Africa and Australasia and seeks to explain the history and varied trajectories of warfare in non-Western regions in the pre-modern era. Further, it evaluates whether warfare in non-Western regions should be considered primitive or inferior when compared with Western warfare. The book notes that Western Europe became militarily significant only in the early modern era and argues that the military divergence that occurred during the early modern era is not unique – it had also occurred in the Bronze Age, the Classical era and in the medieval period. This was due to the dynamism and innovativeness of non-Western militaries and the interconnectedness that existed in parts of the Eurasian landmass. Further, those polities which were able to construct a balanced military force by synthesising diverse elements were not only able to survive but also became capable of projecting power across continents. This book will be of much interest to students of military history, strategic studies and world history.
Beyond Lords and Peasants: Rural Elites and Economic Differentiation in Pre-Modern Europe
Frederic Aparisi & Vicent Royo
Author : Frederic Aparisi & Vicent Royo
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788437092621
Beyond Lords and Peasants: Rural Elites and Economic Differentiation in Pre-Modern Europe by Frederic Aparisi & Vicent Royo Pdf
The present volume explores the process of economic stratification within the rural societies in the Middle Ages and in the Pre-modern period, paying special attention to the leading sectors of the community. Established experts and younger scholars in the field examine the rural elites and its relation with the emergence of agrarian capitalism through different observatories ranging across European regions, from Wiltshire (England), the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant (Low Countries) to the Kingdom of Valencia (Crown of Aragon). The contributions analyse the differentiation within the peasantry from various perspectives such as the social conditions, the evolution of communal structures, the investment strategies, the expenses for burials, the means for social promotion and the uses of the common lands. The book employs a variety of historical methods and draws on a wide range of diverse sources including court records, wills, law codes, manuals of institutional landowners and notarial registries. Considering the interest of the issue and the newness of the observatories, this volume will be essential reading for specialists on rural history and also engage a more general readership interested in conditions and structures in pre-industrial societies.
Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Alex Davis
Author : Alex Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198851424
Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Alex Davis Pdf
Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam and Eve. This book explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The writing composed during this period was the product of what the historian Georges Duby has called a 'society of heirs', in which inheritance functioned as a key instrument of social reproduction, acting to ensure that existing structures of status, wealth, familial power, political influence, and gender relations were projected from the present into the future. In poetry, prose, and drama--in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and his Canterbury Tales; in Spenser's Faerie Queene; in plays by Shakespeare such as Macbeth, As You Like It, and The Merchant of Venice; and in a host of other works--we encounter a range of texts that attests to the extraordinary imaginative reach of questions of inheritance between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Moving between the late medieval and early modern periods, Imagining Inheritance examines this body of writing in order to argue that an exploration of the ways in which premodern inheritance was imagined can make legible the deep structures of power that modernity wants to forget.
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
Craig E. Bertolet,Robert Epstein
Author : Craig E. Bertolet,Robert Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319719009
Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature by Craig E. Bertolet,Robert Epstein Pdf
This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization of medieval literary texts, but that this criticism can be advanced only if we also recognize the specificity of the economic and social conditions of late-medieval England.
Subaltern Medievalisms
David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders
Author : David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845782
Subaltern Medievalisms by David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders Pdf
A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.
The Post-Historical Middle Ages
E. Scala,Sylvia Federico
Author : E. Scala,Sylvia Federico
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230621558
The Post-Historical Middle Ages by E. Scala,Sylvia Federico Pdf
This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are "historical" and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary studies in terms of new possibilities, this collection will have broad appeal to those interested in the English Middle Ages, history, culture, and reading itself.