Medieval America - 9780820358369

Medieval AmericaFeudalism and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture\nAuthor(s): Robert Yusef Rabiee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820358369, 978-0820358369\nSynopsis\nMedieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold Warera studies of [url] culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartzs liberal consensus model, that the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from Europes feudal institutions and uninterested in the production of its medieval culture productions, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century. \n\nThe racial, gender, and class formations that emerged in the first era of [url] nation building were deeply indebted to medieval social, .