Land and Lordship
Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria
1st Edition
Published on 28. July 2015
498 pages
978-1-5128-0106-4 (ISBN)
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Originally published in 1939 and available here in English, Land and Lordship has been one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century medieval scholarship.
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Pennsylvania
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978-1-5128-0106-4 (9781512801064)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Translators' Introduction
- Author's Preface to the Fourth, Revised Edition (1959)
- Chapter I. Peace and Feud
- 1. Politics and the feud
- 2. Four Feuds: An Introduction to the Problem
- 3. Basic Concepts
- 4. The Feud in Practice and in Law
- a) The Legal Foundation
- b) The Obligation to Feud
- c) A Legal Complaint as the Precondition of a Lawful Feud
- d) Those Entitled to Feud and Those Who Feuded
- e) The Challenge
- f) The Means of Feuding
- g) Limits to the Feud
- h) Consequences of the Feud
- i) Peace (Reconciliation)
- 5. Feud, State, and the Law
- Chapter II. State, Law, and Constitution
- 1. "State" and "Society
- 2. Constitutional History as the History of Constitutional Law
- 3. The Medieval View of Law
- 4. The Controversy over the German Medieval State
- 5. Our Task
- Chapter III. The Land and Its Law
- 1. The Land, or a Unit of Territorial Supremacy?
- 2. The Nature of the Land
- 3. The Individual Territories
- 4. The Constitution of the Land: Basic Features
- Chapter IV. House, Household, and Lordship
- 1. Lordship over Peasants (Grundherrschaft, the Seigneury)
- a) Seigneury or Great Estate?
- b) The House as the Nucleus of All Lordship
- c) The Substance of Lordship
- d) Protection and Safeguard
- e) Aid and Counsel
- f) Imposts, Corvée, Military Obligation
- g) Advocacy (Vogtei)
- h) The Hierarchy of Lordship Rights
- i) Immunity
- j) The Structure of Seigneury (Grundherrschaft)
- k) The Relationship Between Seigneur and Subject Peasants
- 2. Town Lordship (Lordship over Burgher Communities)
- 3. Feudal Tenures: Ecclesiastical and Lay
- Chapter V. Lordship over the Land, The Land-Community
- 1. Lordship over the Land
- a) The Territorial Prince (Landesherr) as Head of the Territorial Community
- b) The Land Lord (Landesherr) as Lord of the Land
- c) General Protection
- d) Blood Justice (Blutbann) in the Lower Territorial Courts
- Regalian Rights
- Feudal Overlordship
- e) Specific Protection
- f) The Fisc in the Wider Sense: Prelates and Towns
- g) The Fisc in the Narrow Sense
- h) The Concept of Lordship over the Land
- i) Lordship over the Land and Sovereignty
- 2. The People of the Land
- a) The Theory of the Medieval Estates
- b) The Organization of the Land into Estates
- 3. The Relationship Between the Lord of the Land and the People of the Land
- a) Diet and Estates in the Prevailing View
- b) The Oath of Fealty (Homage)
- c) Joint Action in Judicial and Military Matters
- d) Reciprocal Transactions
- e) The Development of the "Dualism" of Prince and Estates
- 4. Summary
- Glossary
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- Bibliography
- Index
- SUBJECT INDEX
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- AUTHOR INDEX
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