The new middle ages
In: Foreign affairs, Band 85, Heft 3, S. 95-103
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Foreign affairs, Band 85, Heft 3, S. 95-103
ISSN: 0015-7120
World Affairs Online
In: The Western political quarterly: official journal of Western Political Science Association, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 193
ISSN: 0043-4078
In: Telos, Heft 169
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
A review essay covering a book by Andrew Cole, The Birth of Theory (2014).
In: FP, Heft 119, S. 38-40
ISSN: 0015-7228
AN EXAMINATION OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE REVEALS THAT THE WORLD APPEARS TO BE MOVING BACK INTO THE MIDDLE AGES. THE PLACE OF THE EMPEROR HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE U.S. PRESIDENT, THAT OF THE POPE BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS. AS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY CLASH OVER MONEY. AS IN THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PRESIDENT WIELDS THE MILITARY POWER AND THE SECRETARY SEEKS TO HOLD SWAY OVER PUBLIC OPINION. PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT, THE SECRETARY SEEMS TO BE GAINING AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PRESIDENT--TO WAGE WAR IN KOSOVO, SOMALIA, AND KUWAIT, THE LATTER ULTIMATELY NEEDED THE PERMISSION OF THE FORMER. THE FUTURE MIDDLE AGES WILL LIKELY SEE CONTINUED DECENTRALIZATION AND MASSIVE POPULATION MOVEMENTS FROM ONE POLITICAL UNIT TO THE NEXT.
In: Pacific affairs, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 249-250
ISSN: 0030-851X
'The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages' edited by Norman Cantor is reviewed.
In: Utopian studies, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 161-164
ISSN: 2154-9648
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 85, Heft 3, S. 95
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: History of European ideas, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 317-318
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Band 2014, Heft 169, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 303-311
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 193-207
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 249
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 47-72
ISSN: 1569-206X
AbstractChris Wickham's important intervention in debates about the transformation of the Roman world from the fifth century onwards presents a vast array of evidence about the nature of social relations, the economy and the late-Roman and early-medieval state across the Mediterranean and Western-European world. Wickham is successful in taking into account both the high level of regional variation and differentiation across the Roman world and, at the same time, the various key unifying elements which bound these regions together. But, in arguing that the nature of the fiscal apparatus and structures of extraction, redistribution and consumption of surpluses of the late-Roman state were formative in the structure and appearance of the late-Roman élites in East and West as well as in the evolution of their early-medieval successors, a number of structural tensions in the model become apparent. This discussion highlights some of the issues at stake, while, at the same time, affirming the critical importance of the book, more especially its emphasis on the structural force of late-Roman institutions and social relations for the successor-states of the early-medieval West.