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].

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-...

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Superior document:Medieval Mediterranean, Volume 101
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
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Anno di pubblicazione:2014
Lingua:English
Serie:Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 101.
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (455 p.)
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Sommario:
  • 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.