From Political History To the History of Political Culture: Fifteenth-Century England

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-185
Author(s):  
Frank Rexroth
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
History Of

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-216
Author(s):  
James A. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Roman History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communal Institutions

This concluding chapter highlights Pope Boniface IX's engagement with Rome following his ascent to the papacy in 1389. Boniface's accrual of goodwill early in his papacy culminated in the concession to him of dominion over Rome in 1398. Ultimately, the production of social distinction and political legitimacy through the practices described in this book—practices not dependent on communal institutions—was so successful that Rome's political elites lost interest in defending the autonomy of the Roman commune, ceding power willingly to the papacy. It was this transformation of Roman political culture that ultimately enabled the transformation both of Rome and its place in future politics. Appreciating this frees one from a misleading sense of Roman history born from the pens of fifteenth-century humanists and, by so doing, fundamentally alters Rome's place in the political history of Italy and of Europe.

scholarly journals The Politics of Gift Exchange in Early Qajar Iran, 1785–1834

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 550-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assef Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political History ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Center Periphery

AbstractThis article uses gift-giving practices in early nineteenth-century Iran as a window onto statecraft, governance, and center-periphery relations in the early Qajar state (1785–1925). It first demonstrates that gifts have a long history in the administrative and political history of Iran, the Persianate world, and broader Eurasia, before highlighting specific features found in Iran. The article argues that the pīshkish, a tributary gift-giving ceremony, constituted a central role in the political culture and economy of Qajar Iran, and was part of the process of presenting Qajar rule as a continuation of previous Iranian royal dynasties. Nevertheless, pīshkish ceremonies also illustrated the challenges Qajar rulers faced in exerting power in the provinces and winning the loyalty of provincial elites. Qajar statesmen viewed gifts and bribes, at least at a discursive level, in different terms, with the former clearly understood as an acceptable practice. Gifts and honors, like the khil‘at, presented to society were part of Qajar rulers' strategy of presenting themselves as just and legitimate. Finally, the article considers the use of gifts to influence diplomacy and ease relations between Iranians and foreign envoys, as well as the ways in which an inadequate gift could cause offense.

Book review: Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-429
Author(s):  
Francesca Orsini
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Oxford University Press

Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 272 pp.

Nicholas of Modruš and HisDe Bellis Gothorum: Politics and National History in the Fifteenth-Century Adriatic

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-491
Author(s):  
Luka Špoljarić
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
National History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Proper Context

This article analyzes the “De Bellis Gothorum,” a long neglected and misunderstood history of the ancient Goths written in 1472–73 by Nicholas of Modruš, the leading Croatian-Illyrian bishop at the papal curia. By placing the work in its proper context, this article reconstructs a previously unknown episode in the political history of the fifteenth-century Adriatic. It is argued that the “De Bellis Gothorum” was in fact a national history that was meant to provide a trans-Adriatic network of Croatian and Bosnian nobles and churchmen with support from Naples and the papacy for their border wars against the Ottomans and reestablishment of their national kingdom.

A Political History of Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Jha
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Actionable Knowledge ◽  
Political Biography ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
The Ideal

Vidyapati was a poet and a scholar who lived in the fifteenth century north Bihar and composed nearly a dozen texts on varied themes in three languages. The book focuses on three of Vidyapati’s texts: Likhanāvalī, a Sanskrit treatise on writing letters and documents; Puruṣaparīkṣā, a Sanskrit compilation of mytho-historical stories focused on masculinity and political ethics; and Kīrtilatā, a political biography in Apabhraṃśa of a prince of Mithila composed in the ākhyāyikā style. Together, these compositions provide an exciting entry point into the knowledge formations of the fifteenth century. As such, the book marks a fascinating reading of politics in the literatures of a time that is known for a notorious absence of any ‘imperial’ formation. It does so by placing each of the three texts side by side with other texts composed earlier on identical or similar themes, genres, and ideas in the same and other languages. A critical historicization of the language, composition, and contents of the texts reveal an exciting and messy world of idioms, ideas, and skills drawn from different literary-political traditions. Strikingly, each upheld the ideal of imperium and provided for the cultivation of skills, ethics, and useable pasts appropriate for imperial projects. The book argues that the literary visions that sustained (and gained from) the imperial states in the earlier centuries did not disappear with the disintegration of the Delhi Sultanate. They lingered and found hospitable grounds in humbler locations. Vidyapati inherited and reworked these visions into newer, more ‘actionable’ knowledge forms.

Book review: Pankaj Jha, Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-353
Author(s):  
Dhrub Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Oxford University Press

Pankaj Jha, Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019, 304 pp., ₹1,095, ISBN: 9780199489558.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
James A. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
Important Case ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Papal States ◽  
The City

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the political history of Rome. Rome's communal traditions and their emphasis on the city's autonomy were long-standing and vital. Yet, by the turn of the fifteenth century, the autonomous Roman commune was gone, replaced by papal dominion. Its institutions remained as mechanisms of papal governance, but the absence of autonomy or meaningful ideological commitment makes any appearance of communal vitality illusory. This transformation is notable in its own right, but its aftermath endows it with critical importance. Despite sometimes rocky relations with the city and its inhabitants, it was by and large from Rome that the popes would consolidate their power over the ever more robust Papal States, which have come to serve as an important case study for the emergence of early modern European states in general; for the evolution of sovereign power; and for the process and limits of secularization. This consolidation of papal power began in the fourteenth century and continued in the mid-fifteenth century, accelerating with the end of the Western Schism and the papacy of Martin V. Though the papacy is commonly credited with Rome's transformation, the book demonstrates that such an understanding of Italian, papal, and Roman history misses a fundamental, homegrown transformation of Rome's political culture, which preceded and enabled the consolidation of papal power.

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