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USING CONCEPTS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY KARTONIERT (TB)

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history
as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages  exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using
concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of
understanding past societies  but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the
infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and
inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is 'feudalism' 
whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal
article on the topic. The volume's contributors offer a series of case studies of other
concepts - 'colony'  'crisis'  'frontier'  'identity'  'magic'  'networks' and 'politics' -
that have been influential  particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later
Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical
categories  and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their
dialogue.

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