After the 12th century: war and legal order (or, of historiography and its chimeras)
The publication in 2009 of John Watts’s Making Polities renewed interest not only the causal relation that is habitually taken for granted nowadays between war and development state institutions late medieval centuries (a question about which recent English historiography has produced other works enormous interest), but also appropriateness categories to think changes that, driven by or not, took place then field forms political organisation Western Europe. This paper looks at historiographic origins state-centred model explaining those changes, explores (especially as regards evolution idea itself) potential a jurisdictionalist which, through more contextualized reading sources closer attention its long-term deployment since 12th century, been reconstructing legal related historiographies from, especially, southern European countries.
Imago Temporis: Medium Aevum|RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert) (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya)