Vengeance in the Middle Ages
, by Paul R. Hyams- ISBN: 9780754697800 | 0754697800
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 3/3/2016
This volume explores the emergence of the state in Europe between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a series of case studies and historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays, it challenges the traditional top-down model of state development long held by historians. Instead it explores the numerous ways in which non-elite groups could influence the formation of national political institutions