Some reflections on violence, reconciliation and the “feudal revolution”
Some reflections on violence, reconciliation and the “feudal revolution” By Fredric L. Cheyette Conflict in Medieval Europe, ed. Piotr Gorecki and Warren Brown…
The Black Death and Property Rights
The Black Death visited unprecedented mortality rates on Europe, realigning relative values of factors of production, and in consequence the costs and benefits of defining and enforcing property rights.
Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory
What was the nature of feudalism in the European Middle Ages? How did the specicity of the feudal mode of social organization inform wider forms of medieval geopolitical relations? What distinguishes them from modern and early modern interstate relations? What are the implications for IR theory?
The Idea of the Renaissance, Revisited
The idea of the Renaissance as a historical period was first formulated by Jacob
Burckhardt in his book Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860). In this lecture I want to review some of the many directions taken by Renaissance studies since then, and to make some suggestions for future work.
