Centuries of Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21155803 |
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| Authors | Neil Davidson (0000-0002-3450-9265, 1School of Applied Social Science, University of Strathclyde, Email: [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-97 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156920611x564662 |
| OpenAlex | W2146787236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This review of Chris Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages situates the book within the context of his earlier writings on the transition to feudalism, and contrasts his explanation for and dating of the process with those of the two main opposing positions set out in Perry Anderson’s Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974) and Guy Bois’s The Transformation of the Year One Thousand (1989). Although Framing modifies some of Wickham’s earlier positions, it largely sidesteps explicit theoretical discussion for a compellingly detailed empirical study which extends to almost the entire territorial extent of the former Roman Empire. The review focuses on three main themes raised by Wickham’s important work: the existence or otherwise of a ‘peasant’-mode of production and its relationship to the ‘Asiatic’ mode; the nature of state-formation and the question of when a state can be said to have come into existence; and the rôle of different types of class-struggle - slave-rebellions, tax-revolts and peasant-uprisings - in establishing the feudal system
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bourgeoisie · Empire · Feudalism · Mode of production · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Mathematics · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
Grundrisse
Property and Progress
The Sources of Social Power
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (contd.)
Productive Forces and the Economic Logic of the Feudal Mode of Production
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions
The Other Transition
Debate
The Decline of Slavery and the Economic Expansion of the Early Middle Ages
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
The feudalism debate once more
| Highly cited | No |
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