Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

ISBN 10: 026802863X / ISBN 13: 9780268028633

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World
• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026802863X
• ISBN-13: 9780268028633
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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"This is a stunning collection . . . elegant, magisterial, and persuasive. Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains new and impeccable scholarship in beautifully written and structured essays." -Roberta Frank, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale University

Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range geographically from Europe to Africa, the Near East to regions of Latin America. While acknowledging major factors that affect community-such as religious belief, imperial expansion, and warfare-these studies focus on precise examples and moments in the pre-modern world. The contributors reveal the inherent complexity and variety of communities within pre-modern Europe. They offer a powerful argument against sweeping generalizations about the ways in which humans form themselves into groups, and encourage further scholarly research into the ways in which communities are formed and shaped.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Howe (1953–2006) was professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author and editor of several books, including Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England (Notre Dame Press, 2001).