Diverging paths? : : the shapes of power and institutions in medieval Christendom and Islam / / edited by John Hudson, Ana Rodríguez ; contributors, Stuart Airlie [and eighteen others].

• Superior document: Medieval Mediterranean, Volume 101
• TeilnehmendeR: Hudson, John, 1962-; Rodríguez López, Ana,; Airlie, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 101.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Diverging Paths? investigates an important question, to which the answers must be very complex: “why did certain sorts of institutionalisation and institutional continuity characterise government and society in Christendom by the later Middle Ages, but not the Islamic world, whereas the reverse end-point might have been predicted from the early medieval situation?” This core question lies within classic historiographical debates, to which the essays in the volume, written by leading medievalists, make significant contributions. The papers, drawing on a wide range of evidence and methodologies, span the middle ages, chronologically and geographically. At the same time, the core question relates to matters of strong contemporary interest, notably the perceived characteristics of power exercised within Islamic Middle Eastern regimes. Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Gadi Algazi, Sandro Carocci, Simone Collavini, Emanuele Conte, Nadia El Cheikh, Maribel Fierro, John Hudson, Caroline Humfress, Michel Kaplan, Hugh Kennedy, Simon MacLean, Eduardo Manzano, Susana Naroztky, Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Ana Rodríguez, Magnus Ryan and Bernard Stolte.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / John Hudson and Ana Rodríguez -- Comparing Medieval Institutions: A Few Introductory Remarks / Gadi Algazi -- Institutionalisation between Theory and Practice: Comparative Approaches to Medieval Islamic and Late Roman Law / Caroline Humfress -- The Hisba, the Muhtasib and the Struggle over Political Power and a Moral Economy: An Enquiry into Institutions / Susana Narotzky and Eduardo Manzano -- Codification in Byzantium: From Justinian to Leo VI / Bernard H. Stolte -- Codification in the Western Middle Ages / Emanuele Conte and Magnus Ryan -- Codifying the Law: The Case of the Medieval Islamic West / Maribel Fierro -- Law and Codification: Conclusion / John Hudson -- The Cost of States: Politics and Exactions in the Christian West (Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries) / Sandro Carocci and Simone M. Collavini -- Landholding and Law in the Early Islamic State / Hugh Kennedy -- The Mobilisation of Fiscal Resources in the Byzantine Empire (Eighth to Eleventh Centuries) / Vivien Prigent -- State, Aggregation of the Elites and Redistribution of Resources in Sicily in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Proposals for a New Interpretation / Annliese Nef -- Resources and Power: Conclusion / Eduardo Manzano -- The Palace Complex / Stuart Airlie -- Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms / Simon MacLean -- Monasteries: Institutionalisation and Organisation of Space in the Byzantine World until the End of the Twelfth Century / Michel Kaplan -- The Institutionalisation of ‘Abbāsid Ceremonial / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- Palaces and Places: Conclusion / Ana Rodríguez -- Bibliography / John Hudson and Ana Rodríguez -- Index of Names and Places / John Hudson and Ana Rodríguez.