In the fifteenth century, Renaissance humanists were not the only ones to think about time differently from previous generations. Time and Governance examines how and why late medieval townspeople those who bought, sold, and manufactured for a living reconceptualized time and applied their new understanding of it to politics and to economics. In doing so, this book reconstructs and analyses a place and time both unexpectedly familiar and deeply alien. Blending institutional history with the history of mentalities, Philip Daileader engages with issues of state building, finance, production, social conflict, national identity, and demography. He addresses the question of whether late medieval Europe deserves its often-grim reputation by recapturing and prioritizing the life experiences, thoughts, and opinions of those who lived then and there.
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Late medieval townspeople reconceptualized time even more radically than contemporary Renaissance humanists did, causing greater everyday and practical consequences.
List of tables; Acknowledgments; A note on names; List of abbreviations;
Introduction;
1. Depopulation, debt, and distrust;
2. Representation, choice,
and rule;
3. Production and prosperity;
4. Municipal citizens, royal
subjects, and Catalans;
5. Conquest and repatriation; Conclusion;
Bibliography; Index.
Philip Daileader is Professor in the Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History at William & Mary. He is the author and editor of various books and articles on the medieval Europe and Perpignan.
