Von Sivers Peter. Invading the Village Common: the Origins of Algeria’s Modern Rural Crisis, 1870... more Von Sivers Peter. Invading the Village Common: the Origins of Algeria’s Modern Rural Crisis, 1870-1914. In: Terroirs et sociétés au Maghreb et au Moyen Orient
Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens with a survey of the struc... more Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens with a survey of the structure of the period and continues with an analysis of the Germanic invasions, the fall of Rome, and the rise of empire and monastic Christianity. The political implications of Christianity and philosophy in the period are elaborated in chapters devoted to John of Salisbury, Joachim of Flora (Fiore), Frederick II, Siger de Brabant, Francis of Assisi, Roman law, and climaxing in a remarkable study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's mighty thirteenth-century synthesis.Although "History of Political Ideas" was begun as a textbook for Macmillan, Voegelin never intended it to be a conventional chronological account. He sought instead an original comprehensive interpretation, founded on primary materials and taking into account the most advanced specialist scholarship or science as he called it available to him. Because of this, the book grew well beyond the confines of an easily marketable...
the Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts, 2021
Collective volume edited by Metter Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, and Tom... more Collective volume edited by Metter Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, and Tommaso Tesei (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021)
The voracity of a ruling class for taxes is usually paten casual observer, while its interests in... more The voracity of a ruling class for taxes is usually paten casual observer, while its interests in commercial, agr industrial enterprises tend to be much less manifest. For Umayyad caliphs have always been known as having po mous tax revenues, but their successful activities as agricu preneurs of their castles are only now becoming general Similarly, it has been accepted wisdom that the crusa Jerusalem and Acre subsisted on a meager tax base, largely the substantial commercial profits garnered by the Italia Recent scholarly research, however, has made it incre that they never relinquished control over the spice tr article we shall turn to another subject of Middle Eas during the classical Islamic period where preoccupati military aspects of ruling class politics has resulted in an not only of its less visible fiscal but also commercial "fiscal interests" I mean those interests which underlie m pansion and conquest and relate to matters of taxation financial incentives. Our subject is the history of the pro
Le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord représentent des cas classiques de régions où, avant l&#... more Le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord représentent des cas classiques de régions où, avant l'époque contemporaine, les classes dirigeantes préféraient bâtir leur fortune sur les impôts, la rente foncière ou le commerce plutôt que sur la production agricole. L'Algérie ne fait pas exception. Tirer profit du dry-farming était trop risqué dans un climat à pluviométrie irrégulière et l'agriculture irriguée avait des rendements si élevés qu'il n'était pas évident que la mise en valeur directe par la classe dirigeante fut plus avantageuse que la taxation des producteurs indépendants. Avec la colonisation française au xixe siècle, l'Algérie devient un pays où des entrepreneurs ruraux font leur apparition. Mais, comme on sait, ils constituent un groupe sous l'égide de l'élément capitaliste de la classe dirigeante française plutôt qu'une couche supérieure indigène.
... structures arborescentes se pr?tent, dans la pratique et le discours, ? toutes sortes de mani... more ... structures arborescentes se pr?tent, dans la pratique et le discours, ? toutes sortes de manipulations qui traduisent non seulement des ?v?nements r?els ? migrations, extinction ... contradictoires et conflictuelles. Soci?t?s ?galitaires, ac?phales, ? tribes without rulers ? ? ...
Von Sivers Peter. Invading the Village Common: the Origins of Algeria’s Modern Rural Crisis, 1870... more Von Sivers Peter. Invading the Village Common: the Origins of Algeria’s Modern Rural Crisis, 1870-1914. In: Terroirs et sociétés au Maghreb et au Moyen Orient
Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens with a survey of the struc... more Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens with a survey of the structure of the period and continues with an analysis of the Germanic invasions, the fall of Rome, and the rise of empire and monastic Christianity. The political implications of Christianity and philosophy in the period are elaborated in chapters devoted to John of Salisbury, Joachim of Flora (Fiore), Frederick II, Siger de Brabant, Francis of Assisi, Roman law, and climaxing in a remarkable study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's mighty thirteenth-century synthesis.Although "History of Political Ideas" was begun as a textbook for Macmillan, Voegelin never intended it to be a conventional chronological account. He sought instead an original comprehensive interpretation, founded on primary materials and taking into account the most advanced specialist scholarship or science as he called it available to him. Because of this, the book grew well beyond the confines of an easily marketable...
the Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts, 2021
Collective volume edited by Metter Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, and Tom... more Collective volume edited by Metter Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, and Tommaso Tesei (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021)
The voracity of a ruling class for taxes is usually paten casual observer, while its interests in... more The voracity of a ruling class for taxes is usually paten casual observer, while its interests in commercial, agr industrial enterprises tend to be much less manifest. For Umayyad caliphs have always been known as having po mous tax revenues, but their successful activities as agricu preneurs of their castles are only now becoming general Similarly, it has been accepted wisdom that the crusa Jerusalem and Acre subsisted on a meager tax base, largely the substantial commercial profits garnered by the Italia Recent scholarly research, however, has made it incre that they never relinquished control over the spice tr article we shall turn to another subject of Middle Eas during the classical Islamic period where preoccupati military aspects of ruling class politics has resulted in an not only of its less visible fiscal but also commercial "fiscal interests" I mean those interests which underlie m pansion and conquest and relate to matters of taxation financial incentives. Our subject is the history of the pro
Le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord représentent des cas classiques de régions où, avant l&#... more Le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord représentent des cas classiques de régions où, avant l'époque contemporaine, les classes dirigeantes préféraient bâtir leur fortune sur les impôts, la rente foncière ou le commerce plutôt que sur la production agricole. L'Algérie ne fait pas exception. Tirer profit du dry-farming était trop risqué dans un climat à pluviométrie irrégulière et l'agriculture irriguée avait des rendements si élevés qu'il n'était pas évident que la mise en valeur directe par la classe dirigeante fut plus avantageuse que la taxation des producteurs indépendants. Avec la colonisation française au xixe siècle, l'Algérie devient un pays où des entrepreneurs ruraux font leur apparition. Mais, comme on sait, ils constituent un groupe sous l'égide de l'élément capitaliste de la classe dirigeante française plutôt qu'une couche supérieure indigène.
... structures arborescentes se pr?tent, dans la pratique et le discours, ? toutes sortes de mani... more ... structures arborescentes se pr?tent, dans la pratique et le discours, ? toutes sortes de manipulations qui traduisent non seulement des ?v?nements r?els ? migrations, extinction ... contradictoires et conflictuelles. Soci?t?s ?galitaires, ac?phales, ? tribes without rulers ? ? ...
The paper is the draft of a presentation in May 2022 to the Seventh Inarah Symposium, held in Tri... more The paper is the draft of a presentation in May 2022 to the Seventh Inarah Symposium, held in Trier, Germany. It proposes to date the "Doctrina Iacobi" and "The Nistarot of Rabbi Simon b. Yohai," hitherto assumed to have been composed in the 630s, to the end of the seventh century.
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