15.5/20 Political life of the European Medieval Culture The European high Middle Ages, lasted from about 1050 to 1300, suggest for most people a cultural interval between the standard period of the Greeks and Roman society and the Renaissance. The idea is on contrary to High Middle Ages which was a dynamic period that developed the identity of the European and development being stimulated by the interactions of the European with other cultures in the Mediterranean and the Eurasia. Most of the political and social forms and institutions afterward connected to the European history were founded in the times of this era. Comment by student: Essentially this is your thesis statement This paper looks into the political life of the European Medieval Culture and its contribution to the recent politics in the European Society. It is believed that the political organization that exists in Europe now was something that began in the ancient times. These political practices were inherited, carried from one generation to another, being shaped and changed depending on the new experiences and innovations in life. The paper is therefore to give the correct an understanding of how the European political life developed up to where it stands now and what led to the changes that were made to make up the modern politics in the European society. The paper therefore comes out to argue that several upcoming factors in the medieval culture of Europe helped in the shaping of the current European political practices. Bibliography Alphabetical order AlSayyad, Nezar, and Manuel Castells. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam: politics, culture, and citizenship in the age of globalization. Lexington Books, 2002. This article is important as it looks into the changing of realities and identity perception within the Europe. There is the need for full acknowledgement of the fact of ethnic diversity and religion. Muslim population got themselves part of a complex procedure of the European identity reconstruction and deconstruction from the above and below. The existence of the Islam within the European borders is pushing the reexamination of what it stands to be European, and giving profound and confusing questions about citizenship issues, civil society participation, and political recognition and being included or excluded. This article therefore gives why the composition of the Europe is full of the Christian population as compared to Muslim and what led to this and the distribution of the two religions. This also gives the making of the laws according to the religion that holds the power most, and thus in Europe the political life was some howsomehow most guided by the Christian religion. This therefore come up with religion as one of the factors that contributed to the political power in the European with Christians being many as compared to the Muslims thus controlling a large part of the Europe. Anderson, James. "The shifting stage of politics: new medieval.

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Political life of the European Medieval Culture
The European high Middle Ages, lasted from about 1050 to
1300, suggest for most people a cultural interval between the
standard period of the Greeks and Roman society and the
Renaissance. The idea is on contrary to High Middle Ages
which was a dynamic period that developed the identity of the
European and development being stimulated by the interactions
of the European with other cultures in the Mediterranean and
the Eurasia. Most of the political and social forms and
institutions afterward connected to the European history were
founded in the times of this era. Comment by student:
Essentially this is your thesis statement
This paper looks into the political life of the European Medieval
Culture and its contribution to the recent politics in the
European Society. It is believed that the political organization
that exists in Europe now was something that began in the
ancient times. These political practices were inherited, carried
from one generation to another, being shaped and changed
depending on the new experiences and innovations in life. The
paper is therefore to give the correct an understanding of how

2. the European political life developed up to where it stands now
and what led to the changes that were made to make up the
modern politics in the European society. The paper therefore
comes out to argue that several upcoming factors in the
medieval culture of Europe helped in the shaping of the current
European political practices.
Bibliography
Alphabetical order
AlSayyad, Nezar, and Manuel Castells. Muslim Europe or Euro-
Islam: politics, culture, and citizenship in the age of
globalization. Lexington Books, 2002.
This article is important as it looks into the changing of
realities and identity perception within the Europe. There is the
need for full acknowledgement of the fact of ethnic diversity
and religion. Muslim population got themselves part of a
complex procedure of the European identity reconstruction and
deconstruction from the above and below. The existence of the
Islam within the European borders is pushing the reexamination
of what it stands to be European, and giving profound and
confusing questions about citizenship issues, civil society
participation, and political recognition and being included or
excluded. This article therefore gives why the composition of
the Europe is full of the Christian population as compared to
Muslim and what led to this and the distribution of the two
religions. This also gives the making of the laws according to
the religion that holds the power most, and thus in Europe the
political life was some howsomehow most guided by the
Christian religion. This therefore come up with religion as one

3. of the factors that contributed to the political power in the
European with Christians being many as compared to the
Muslims thus controlling a large part of the Europe.
Anderson, James. "The shifting stage of politics: new medieval
and postmodern territorialities?." Environment and Planning D
14 (1996): 133-154.
This article looks into the changing shape of politics in the
European society. The globalization has intensified making a
shift in the Europe political institutions, complex and practices.
However, the EU is usually produced in traditional functionalist
or realist terms which unclear the possibility that fresh
distinctive political forms arc emerging. The article argues on
new medieval and postmodern conceptualizations of
sovereignty, with recognition on geographic space in becoming
more multifaceted and relative. Conventional political rules
based on absolute place are more problematic for getting to
know the political complexities of provisional globalization. In
the article, the writer has come up with sovereignty
transformation from medieval to modern and to postmodern,
with focus on unbundling the territorial with traditional
conceptions of the sovereignty remaining dormant. Furthermore
there exist problems both with the new medievalism historical
analogies and postmodern elusive notions. However, despite the
qualifications and the problems, the concepts are significance in
exploring radical transformation possibilities, both with space-
time of the stage which the politics actor operates and the actor
themselves. This article is therefore important in giving the
information in the transformation of the political life up to the
modern times as globalization takes place. Therefore, through
globalization, political rules are bound to change to fit the new
world and technology.
Mearsheimer, John J. "Back to the future: instability in Europe
after the Cold War." International security (1990): 5-56.

4. This article looks into the state of the European society after the
cold war, which is believed to have widely affected the
Europeans and influenced their current state. The reflective
changes now in progress in Europe have been extensively seen
as harbingers of fresh age of peace. After the cold war, it has
been argued that the war threat that had been in Europe for
more than for decades is now lifting. The article is therefore
involved in the assessment of the optimistic view through
exploration of the consequences of the end cold war for Europe
in detail. The author in the article is involved in the
examination of the effect of the scenario under which the cold
war ends completely. This article is important in the
completion of my paper as it looks into the cold war which in
one way or the other had a wide effect on the political life in
the medieval period. The war determined those who remained to
form political rules to govern the Europe. The cold war
therefore stands to be one of the vital factors that shaped the
European political life.
Smith, Anthony D. "Culture, community and territory: the
politics of ethnicity and nationalism." International Affairs
(Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) (1996): 445-458.
This article analyzes the impact of the politics on the
nationalism and ethnicity and their elite political uses. Most
scholars concentrate on the modernist and instrumentalist views
of nationalism and ethnicity hence less treatment to nationalism
and ethnicity impacts. The article explores the relationship that
exists between culture and politics. Cultural practices by the
Europe society must have one way or the other have some
influence on the political life in the medieval times in Europe.
Most of the political practices recently are viewed back to the
ancient times being transferred from one generation to the
other. This article, having looked into the relationship of
culture to the political life, gives information concerning how
the culture shaped the politics practiced in the Europe society.
The article having information on the political impacts on the

5. nationalism and ethnicity gives us the idea on the distribution of
different races with the European society, which is usually
unevenly distributed with one race having more powers as
compared to the other. These factors in one way or the other
influenced the European modern political life.
Carver, Martin. "Why that? Why there? Why then? The politics
of early medieval monumentality." Journal??????? (2001): 1-22.
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This article discusses the history of early period of medieval in
the north-west Europe. This article majorly involves
monuments. Monuments comprises the vocabulary of the
political language, fossilized descriptions of the arguments that
were repetitive and may have interconnection to what was
desired than had took place. The architecture, sculpture get their
real meaning in the target of each generation that studied them.
The motives attached by the author to the construction of the
monuments in the article by the author to be discussed have
fewer characterizations of the reflective stresses that were
shown by their makers. This article therefore gives the
monuments that can be related to the political life of the
Europe. These monuments are there as symbols which signifies
some of the political rules that were used in the past. This
article is therefore important as it gives the physical factors that
were used by the Europe in their political system during the
medieval period. For instance, having a preserved place for
political parties meetings is what that must existed during the
medieval times.
Berezin, Mabel. "Politics and culture: a less fissured terrain."
Annual Review of Sociology (1997): 361-383.
This article looks into the position of the political and culture in
the medieval period and to some extent looks into their
interrelationship. The area of the politics and culture has moved
from cultural inquiry margins to the evidenced centers by the
number of persons who calls themselves as working within

6. sections and by its growing social institutional. Political
culture to some extent has suggestions of the limits of the
cultural actions in which the political boundaries take place.
This article therefore proves on how the culture can actually
form the politics of a country. It therefore proves that the
political stand of the Europe was founded under the culture that
was practices during the medieval period of the Europeans. A
bigger culture can to a wide extent have influence on a small
culture and which is not easy in vice versa. The political
practiced that is therefore seen now in the European society is
to some point from the cultural influence. This article is
important as it brings out the understanding of the relationship
between the political life in Europe and the surrounding culture
in the medieval period.
Sponsler, Claire. "The Culture of the Spectator: Conformity and
Resistance to Medieval Performances." Theatre Journal (1992):
15-29.
This article examines the various cultures with theretheir
contribution to the recent European society. The drama of
medieval Europe has attracted unusual attention, to some extent
surprisingly provided the marginalization suffered for most of
the 20th century. However, with the declining historical
formalist model, which was advantageous to the literary played
role in the later and renaissance periods, making the study of
the medieval drama coming to its own. The article comes to
show a Europe politics to be a contribution by various groups.
The final decisions of the best politics to follow were agreement
by various parties who by one way or the other were after living
in peace and harmony. This article is very important as it brings
the understanding of who created the European political life. It
contributes to the knowledge on how various parties came to
agreement in the formation of the political life of Europe. From
the article I am in a position to see how the politics in the
Europe change in the medieval period.

7. Flanagan, Scott C., and Aie-Rie Lee. "The new politics, culture
wars, and the authoritarian-libertarian value change in advanced
industrial democracies." Comparative Political Studies 36, no. 3
(2003): 235-270.
This article examines the shifting of the political life and rules
in the western countries with the Europe included. The plurality
of the world views which are conflicting are recently got in the
advanced industrial democracies of the western which has
developed values and the belief systems which are obviously at
odds with each other, projecting the whole new steps of fresh
politics or problems of the culture war into the agenda of
politics. The article shows a shift from the authoritarian to
libertarian values in relation to various factors. The author
therefore brings out the understanding of the development of the
recent politics in terms of the ways the political rule is carried
out stating it to have shifted from another type of rule which
was carried out in the ancient times. The author has come to
state the shifting to be from influence of various key factors.
This article is important in the completion of my proposal as its
gives the factors that have actually influenced the politics of the
Europe.
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