Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World

Nicholas Howe

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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame du Lac
Año de edición:
2002
Materia
Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
ISBN:
9780268028626

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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.

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