@article{1444409,
      recid = {1444409},
      author = {Armstrong, Jackson W. and Crooks, Peter, and Ruddick,  Andrea,},
      title = {Using concepts in Medieval history : perspectives on  Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly  with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to  the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and  pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts  are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding  past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to  bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a  bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately  influencing historical interpretation. The most famous  example is feudalism, whose fate as a concept is reviewed  here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal  article on the topic. The volumes contributors offer a  series of case studies of other concepts 'colony',  'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and  'politics' that have been influential, particularly among  historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages.  The book explores the creative friction between historical  ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for  fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their  dialogue.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444409},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77280-2},
}