Finding Europe

Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-208-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 759 g

In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe’s values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emphasizes the process of European “construction.” The first conceives of Europe’s past teleologically, as a process by which certain values (Christian ethics, individualism, capitalism, tolerance, republicanism, due process, etc.) were affirmed and came to define European culture. The second approach rejects the discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of the concept of Europe, and the political and ideological implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations) during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element, with the “constructivist” interpretation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molho, Anthony

Curto, Diogo Ramada

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

A Harlequin’s Dress: Reflections on Europe’s Public Discourse

Anthony Molho

Rethinking the History of Europe: Old and New Approaches

Diogo Ramada Curto

PART I: MARGINS

Chapter 1. Crypto-identities: Disguised Turks, Christians and Jews

Giovanni Ricci

Chapter 2. Segregation, Migration and Recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the First Modernity: The Case of Semitic Spain

André Stoll

Chapter 3. Gender and the Body

Giulia Calvi

Chapter 4. Magic and Witchcraft

Stuart Clark

PART II: COMMUNITIES

Chapter 5. A Republic of Merchants?

Francesca Trivellato

Chapter 6 A European Community of Scholars: Exchange and Friendship among Early Modern Natural Historians

Florike Egmond

Chapter 7. The Court Galaxy

Rita Costa Gomes

Chapter 8. Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour: Discovering, Imagining and Inventing European Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment

Robert Wokler

Chapter 9. Citizenship and the Language of Statecraft

Janet Coleman

Chapter 10. Images of Law in Europe: In Search of Shared Traditions

Pietro Costa

Chapter 11. Resisting Public Violence: Actions, Law and Emotions

Angela De Benedictis

PART III: IMAGES

Chapter 12. The Tree

Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

Chapter 13. From the Renaissance to the Englightenment. through Antiquity: The Beginnings of the European Network of Museums

Edouard Pommier

Chapter 14. Sainthood and Heroism: Images and Imagery in Sixteenth-century Europe

Denis Crouzet

Chapter 15. Latin

Françoise Waquet

Abstracts of Chapters 1–15 in French

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Molho, Anthony
Anthony Molho is Professor of History and Head of the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute. His special subjects are the history of the state in early modern Europe and the history of the Italian Renaissance.

Curto, Diogo Ramada
Diogo Ramada Curto is the Vasco da Gama Professor of History at the European University Institute and a specialist in the history of European expansion and colonialism.

Anthony Molho is Professor of History and Head of the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute. His special subjects are the history of the state in early modern Europe and the history of the Italian Renaissance.