Kathleen Davis

Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a «medieval» and a «modern» period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of «the Middle Ages» and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and...