Diverging Paths?

The Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Christendom and Islam
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27736-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 101, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 832 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Diverging Paths? investigates an important question, to which the answers must be very complex: “why did certain sorts of institutionalisation and institutional continuity characterise government and society in Christendom by the later Middle Ages, but not the Islamic world, whereas the reverse end-point might have been predicted from the early medieval situation?” This core question lies within classic historiographical debates, to which the essays in the volume, written by leading medievalists, make significant contributions. The papers, drawing on a wide range of evidence and methodologies, span the middle ages, chronologically and geographically. At the same time, the core question relates to matters of strong contemporary interest, notably the perceived characteristics of power exercised within Islamic Middle Eastern regimes.
Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Gadi Algazi, Sandro Carocci, Simone Collavini, Emanuele Conte, Nadia El Cheikh, Maribel Fierro, John Hudson, Caroline Humfress, Michel Kaplan, Hugh Kennedy, Simon MacLean, Eduardo Manzano, Susana Naroztky, Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Ana Rodríguez, Magnus Ryan and Bernard Stolte.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hudson, John

Rodríguez, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.ix
John Hudson and Ana Rodríguez

List of Contributors.xiv
Maps.xvi

Part 1: Approaches and Explorations
1 Comparing Medieval Institutions: A Few Introductory Remarks.3
Gadi Algazi
2 Institutionalisation between Theory and Practice: Comparative Approaches to Medieval Islamic and Late Roman Law.16
Caroline Humfress
3 The Hisba, the Muhtasib and the Struggle over Political Power and a Moral Economy: An Enquiry into Institutions.30
Susana Narotzky and Eduardo Manzano

Part 2: Themes and Investigations

Law and Codification.57
4 Codification in Byzantium: From Justinian to Leo VI.59
Bernard H. Stolte
5 Codification in the Western Middle Ages. 75
Emanuele Conte and Magnus Ryan
6 Codifying the Law: The Case of the Medieval Islamic West.98
Maribel Fierro
7 Law and Codification: Conclusion.1.19
John Hudson

Resources and Power.123
8 The Cost of States: Politics and Exactions in the Christian West (Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries).125
Sandro Carocci and Simone M. Collavini
9 Landholding and Law in the Early Islamic State.159
Hugh Kennedy
10 The Mobilisation of Fiscal Resources in the Byzantine Empire (Eighth to Eleventh Centuries).182
Vivien Prigent
11 State, Aggregation of the Elites and Redistribution of Resources in Sicily in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Proposals for a New Interpretation.230
Annliese Nef
12 Resources and Power: Conclusion.248
Eduardo Manzano

Palaces and Places.253
13 The Palace Complex.255
Stuart Airlie
14 Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms.291
Simon MacLean
15 Monasteries: Institutionalisation and Organisation of Space in the Byzantine World until the End of the Twelfth Century.321
Michel Kaplan
16 The Institutionalisation of 'Abbasid Ceremonial.351
Nadia Maria El Cheikh
17 Palaces and Places: Conclusion.371
Ana Rodríguez

Bibliography.377
Index of Names and Places.426

Über Autor(innen)

John Hudson, DPhil (Oxford, 1988), is Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at University of Michigan Law. His books include The Formation of the English Common Law (1996), an edition of The History of the Church of Abingdon (2002, 2007), and volume II of The Oxford History of the Laws of England.
Ana Rodríguez, Ph.D. (Madrid, 1992), is Scientific Researcher in the CCHS-CSIC. Her books include La consolidación territorial de la monarquía feudal castellana (1994); Beyond the Market. Transactions, property and social networks in monastic Galicia (co-author, 2002) and Objets sous contrainte. Circulation des richesses et valeur des choses au Moyen Âge (co-editor, 2013).