Timing is Everything?

Abstract

sheer intellectual pleasure to be had in grappling with its challenging and complex argument. The second is exciting way book models kind of comparative, cross-field, interdisciplinary projects that ev eryone values but that few of us are trained to do. Most clearly spanning medieval studies and postcolonial studies (themselves internally rather diversified fields), Periodization and Sovereignty has an audience with anyone, in any field, who wishes to think seriously about time, politics, or history. The relationship among Peri odization and Sovereigntys keywords is avowedly circular. In most basic terms, book argues that the history of periodization is juridical, and it advances through struggle over definition and location of sover eignty (6, original emphasis). The reciprocal relation between these two concepts is demonstrated in two parts, titled Feudalism and Secularization, each consisting of a pair of chapters. Rather than pro viding a genealogy of these terms, book demonstrates extent