Isabel Alfonso / Hugh Kennedy / Julio Escalona (eds.)

Building Legitimacy

Political Discourses and Forms of Legitimation in Medieval Societies
Herausgeber: Alfonso Antón, Isabel; Escalona Monge, Julio; Kennedy, Hugh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides relevant insights into medieval political legitimation, and its impact on political competition and notions of power. With a main focus on medieval Castile, the political discourses purporting to legitimate practices of power are discussed, both as pieces of textual material and in their wider historical context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 166mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9789004133051
• ISBN-10: 9004133054
• Artikelnr.: 22067389

Autorenporträt

Isabel Alfonso Antón, Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science, Universidad Complutense (Madrid), is Investigadora Científica at Instituto de Historia (CSIC), Madrid. Her research covers medieval rural history, the Cistercians, and legal and political culture, including the co-editing of Lucha política. Condena y legitimación en la España Medieval (Lyon, 2003). Julio Escalona Monge, Ph.D. (1996) in Medieval History, Universidad Complutense (Madrid), is Investigador Contratado at Instituto de Historia (CSIC), Madrid. He has published on medieval territoriality, and on document forgeries and the invention of the past, and co-edited Lucha política. Condena y legitimación en la España Medieval (Lyon, 2003). Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has published extensively on the Islamic World in the Middle Ages, including The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (London, 1986) and Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al-Andalus (London, 1996).