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4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh

  • Kathleen Davis
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Periodization and Sovereignty
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© 2019 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2019 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Feudalism
  5. 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History 23
  6. 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property 51
  7. Part II. Secularization
  8. 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ‘‘Middle Ages’’ 77
  9. 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh 103
  10. Epilogue 132
  11. Notes 135
  12. Works Cited 169
  13. Index 183
  14. Acknowledgments 189
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207415-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Feudalism
  5. 1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History 23
  6. 2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property 51
  7. Part II. Secularization
  8. 3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the ‘‘Middle Ages’’ 77
  9. 4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh 103
  10. Epilogue 132
  11. Notes 135
  12. Works Cited 169
  13. Index 183
  14. Acknowledgments 189
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