Medieval History and Anarchist Studies
Anarchist Studies - ISSN 2633-8270
Volume 28 Number 1
Medieval History and Anarchist Studies
Ian Forrest pages -
DOI: 10.3898/AS.28.1.03
Abstract
Medieval history and anarchist studies have a great deal to offer one another, but there is very little intellectual traffic between the two fields. This paper encourages historians to deploy anarchism as an approach to historical research akin to Marxist or feminist historiography, so that ‘anarchist history’ can move beyond the history of the modern anarchist movement and become a radical new way of studying and learning from the human past. Recent developments in anthropology and archaeology are offered as examples of how this might happen. Medieval history would benefit from the development of an anarchist approach to questions of ungoverned spaces, domination and inequality, and the growth of states and institutions. Anarchist studies would benefit from greater awareness of recent research in medieval history, much of which is relevant to anarchist interests.
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Ian Forrest (2020) Medieval History and Anarchist Studies, Anarchist Studies, 28(1), -. https://doi.org/10.3898/AS.28.1.03