Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval AustriaOtto 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 society, such a dichotomy could not be projected back onto the Middle Ages. Focusing particularly on forms of lordship in late medieval Austria, Brunner found neither a "state" in the modern sense nor any distinction between the public and private spheres. |
Contents
List of Abbreviations | xi |
Authors Preface to the Fourth Revised Edition 1959 | lxiii |
Basic Concepts The state power at the disposal of individuals | 14 |
Le | 36 |
Feud State and the Law Contemporary judgments of the feud | 90 |
Constitutional History as the History of Constitutional Law The | 102 |
The Controversy over the German Medieval State The dis | 124 |
Our Task The demand for a conceptual vocabulary in accord | 137 |
Basic Features Territorial suprem | 192 |
House Household and Lordship | 200 |
Town Lordship Lordship over Burgher Communities Town | 287 |
The | 324 |
Lords | 341 |
Summary | 363 |
Bibliography | 369 |
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The Nature of the Land Länder and lordships The Land as the | 152 |
The Individual Territories Lower Austria Upper Austria Styria | 165 |