Kathleen Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5649164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Orientalism, Medievalism, Colonialism, and Militarized Mercantilism
This chapter investigates the intersections of British medievalism and colonialism in two very different places in the world: early nineteenth-century Chile, as Britain exercised economic domination over parts of the former Spanish Empire (thus it will be termed neocolonial); and late eighteenth-century India, as British officials devised strategies for extracting revenue from Bengal. Despite their many differences, in both cases an area beyond E…
From periodization to the autoimmune secular state
This article addresses the fundamental but often unrecognized work (political, legal, historical) that is accomplished by medieval/modern periodization. By medieval/modern periodization is meant the constitution of the period that we call ‘the Middle Ages' and its simultaneous distinction from the co-constituted ‘modern'. The article argues that the constitution of this Middle Ages is a space-clearing, exclusionary process - accomplished by a cut…
Periodization and “The Medieval Globe”
The period categories “medieval” and “modern” emerged with—and have long served to define and legitimate—the projects of western European imperialism and colonialism. The idea of “the medieval globe” is therefore double edged. On the one hand, it runs the risk of reconfirming the terms of the colonial, Orientalist history through which the “medieval” emerged, thus homogenizing the plural temporalities of global cultures and effacing the material …
Timelines
This essay advances an argument regarding the structure of periodisation and the ways in which it limits critique of imperial historiography. It focuses first on the history and structure of medieval/modern periodisation and its relationship to the more recently popular ‘early modern’, and then turns briefly to the historiography of feudalism, an important anchor of the period concept, ‘the Middle Ages’. It then attends in more detail to the hist…
Cross-Dressing the Rose
Research Article| April 01 2012 Cross-Dressing the Rose: Sly Allegory in Sea of Poppies Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (2008), and co-editor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe (2009) . Current…
Periodization and the matter of precedent
Periodization and Sovereignty
By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.
Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 . Catherine A. M. Clarke
Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
Research Article| May 01 2006 Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 223–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Davis; Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing…
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century . Mary Swan , Elaine M. Treharne
Time Behind the Veil
In the Autumn of 1996, Diane Sawyer journeyed to Afghanistan for an ABC-TV 20/20 story on the treatment of women under Taliban rule. Sawyer's opening voice-over of Behind the Veil—A Report on the Woman of Afghanistan describes this news-gathering venture in terms of travel narrative: "We left New York, heading first to London, then Pakistan, thinking of all we'd heard about the Afghan women, their love of laughter, their fastidious homes, however…
Such Are the Trials
Kathleen Davis was "privileged to come to know" (xi) her great-greatgrandfather
Timelines
This essay advances an argument regarding the structure of periodisation and the ways in which it limits critique of imperial historiography. It focuses first on the history and structure of medieval/modern periodisation and its relationship to the more recently popular ‘early modern’, and then turns briefly to the historiography of feudalism, an important anchor of the period concept, ‘the Middle Ages’. It then attends in more detail to the hist…
Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
Research Article| May 01 2006 Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 223–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Davis; Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing…
Such Are the Trials
Kathleen Davis was "privileged to come to know" (xi) her great-greatgrandfather
Time Behind the Veil
In the Autumn of 1996, Diane Sawyer journeyed to Afghanistan for an ABC-TV 20/20 story on the treatment of women under Taliban rule. Sawyer's opening voice-over of Behind the Veil—A Report on the Woman of Afghanistan describes this news-gathering venture in terms of travel narrative: "We left New York, heading first to London, then Pakistan, thinking of all we'd heard about the Afghan women, their love of laughter, their fastidious homes, however…
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century . Mary Swan , Elaine M. Treharne
Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
Research Article| May 01 2006 Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 223–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kathleen Davis; Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing…
Periodization and Sovereignty
By examining periodization together with the two controversial categories of feudalism and secularization, Kathleen Davis exposes the relationship between the constitution of "the Middle Ages" and the history of sovereignty, slavery, and colonialism.
Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 . Catherine A. M. Clarke
Periodization and the matter of precedent
Cross-Dressing the Rose
Research Article| April 01 2012 Cross-Dressing the Rose: Sly Allegory in Sea of Poppies Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis Kathleen Davis is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (2008), and co-editor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe (2009) . Current…
Timelines
This essay advances an argument regarding the structure of periodisation and the ways in which it limits critique of imperial historiography. It focuses first on the history and structure of medieval/modern periodisation and its relationship to the more recently popular ‘early modern’, and then turns briefly to the historiography of feudalism, an important anchor of the period concept, ‘the Middle Ages’. It then attends in more detail to the hist…
Periodization and “The Medieval Globe”
The period categories “medieval” and “modern” emerged with—and have long served to define and legitimate—the projects of western European imperialism and colonialism. The idea of “the medieval globe” is therefore double edged. On the one hand, it runs the risk of reconfirming the terms of the colonial, Orientalist history through which the “medieval” emerged, thus homogenizing the plural temporalities of global cultures and effacing the material …
From periodization to the autoimmune secular state
This article addresses the fundamental but often unrecognized work (political, legal, historical) that is accomplished by medieval/modern periodization. By medieval/modern periodization is meant the constitution of the period that we call ‘the Middle Ages' and its simultaneous distinction from the co-constituted ‘modern'. The article argues that the constitution of this Middle Ages is a space-clearing, exclusionary process - accomplished by a cut…
Orientalism, Medievalism, Colonialism, and Militarized Mercantilism
This chapter investigates the intersections of British medievalism and colonialism in two very different places in the world: early nineteenth-century Chile, as Britain exercised economic domination over parts of the former Spanish Empire (thus it will be termed neocolonial); and late eighteenth-century India, as British officials devised strategies for extracting revenue from Bengal. Despite their many differences, in both cases an area beyond E…
History (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Middle Ages (4 works)