Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics

Viewing the late Middle Ages (1250-1550) through the lens of what he calls the "historical structure of war", Andrew Latham provides a fresh conceptualization of the geopolitics of late medieval Latin Christendom, emphasizing neither "feudalism" nor "heteronomy", but rather the emergence of the "corporate-sovereign state", the "corporate-sovereign Church" and "Hobbesian-Lockean anarchy". He goes on to demonstrate how this distinctive historical structure of war gave rise to a constellation of public and religious wars that was unique to late medieval Latin Christendom.