Kathleen Davis is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and the author of Deconstruction and Translation.

Introduction
PART I. FEUDALISM
1. Sovereign Subjects, Feudal Law, and the Writing of History
2. Feudal Law and Colonial Property
PART II. SECULARIZATION
3. The Sense of an Epoch: Secularization, Sovereign Futures, and the "Middle Ages"
4. A Political Theology of Time: The Venerable Bede and Amitav Ghosh
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments