Finding Europe : discourses on margins, communities, images ca. 13th - ca. 18th centuries / edited by Anthony Molho, Diogo Ramada Curto, and Niki Koniordos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koniordos, Niki, editor.

Molho, Anthony, editor.

Curto, Diogo Ramada, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 407 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A harlequin's dress : reflections on Europe's public discourse / Anthony Molho

Rethinking the history of Europe : old and new approaches / Diogo Ramada Curto

Crypto-identities : disguised Turks, Christians and Jews / Giovanni Ricci

Segregation, migration and recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the first modernity : the case of Semitic Spain / André Stoll

Gender and the body / Giulia Calvi

Magic and witchcraft / Stuart Clark

A republic of merchants? / Francesca Trivellato

A European community of scholars : exchange and friendship among early modern natural historians / Florike Egmond

The court galaxy / Rita Costa Gomes

Rites of passage and the Grand Tour : discovering, imagining and inventing European civilization in the age of enlightenment / Robert Wokler

Citizenship and the language of statecraft / Janet Coleman

Images of law in Europe : in search of shared traditions / Pietro Costa

Resisting public violence : actions, law, and emotions / Angela De Benedictis

The tree / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber

From the Renaissance to the Englightenment [sic] ... through antiquity : the beginnings of the European network of museums / Edouard Pommier

Sainthood and heroism : images and imagery in sixteenth-century Europe / Denis Crouzet

Latin / Françoise Waquet.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80073-364-X

1-84545-208-9

OCLC:

1266905009