{"product_id":"9780812281835","title":"Land and Lordship : Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria by Otto Brunner","description":"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 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.    Behind the apparent disorder of late medieval political life, however, Brunner discovered a coherent legal and constitutional order rooted in the the rights and obligations of noble lordship. In carefully reconstructing this order, Brunner's study weaves together social, legal, constitutional, and intellectual history.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311962173813,"sku":"9780812281835","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780812281835.jpg?v=1762820083","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780812281835","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}