UID:
almafu_9961652775002883
Format:
1 online resource (420 p.)
ISBN:
9781800733640
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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List of Illustrations --
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A Harlequin’s Dress --
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Rethinking the History of Europe: Old and New Approaches --
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Part I: Margins --
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Chapter 1 Crypto-identities --
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Chapter 2 Segregation, Migration and Recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the First Modernity --
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Chapter 3 Gender and the Body --
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Chapter 4 Magic and Witchcraft --
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Part II: Communities --
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Chapter 5 A Republic of Merchants? --
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Chapter 6 A European Community of Scholars --
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Chapter 7 The Court Galaxy --
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Chapter 8 Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour --
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Chapter 9 Citizenship and the Language of Statecraft --
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Chapter 10 Images of Law in Europe --
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Chapter 11 Resisting Public Violence --
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Part III: Images --
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Chapter 12 The Tree --
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Chapter 13 From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment … through Antiquity --
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Chapter 14 Sainthood and Heroism --
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Chapter 15 Latin --
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French Abstracts. Résumés en Français --
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Index of Names and Places
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800733640
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800733640?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800733640
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