Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400-1800

Author:   Nicolas Detering ,  Clementina Marsico ,  Isabella Walser-Burgler
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   67
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9789004376052


Pages:   386
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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While the term 'Europe' was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained a prevalence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which it did not possess before. Although studies on the history of the idea of Europe abound, much of the vast body of early modern sources has still been neglected. Assuming that discourses tend to transcend linguistic, historical and generic boundaries, this book has gathered experts from various fields of study who examine vernacular and Latin negotiations of Europe from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth century. This multi-angled approach serves to identify similarities and differences in the discourses on Europe within their different national and cultural communities. Contributors are: Ovanes Akopyan, Volker Bauer, Piotr Chmiel, Nicolas Detering, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Niels Grune, Peter Hanenberg, Ulrich Heinen, Ronny Kaiser, Niall Oddy, Katharina N. Piechocki, Dennis Pulina, Marion Romberg, Lucie Storchova, Isabella Walser-Burgler, Michael Wintle, and Enrico Zucchi.

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Author:   Nicolas Detering ,  Clementina Marsico ,  Isabella Walser-Burgler
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   67
Weight:   0.876kg
ISBN:  

9789004376052


ISBN 10:   9004376054
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe (1400-1800) - an Introduction Nicolas Detering, Clementina Marsico and Isabella Walser-Burgler Part 1: Embodying Europe: Allegories of the Self and the Other 1 Rivalry of Lament: Early Personifications of Europe in Neo-Latin Panegyrics for Charles V and Francis I Nicolas Detering and Dennis Pulina 2 Tota caduca et dehiscens - Europe's Critical Condition in Andres Laguna's Europa (1543) Ronny Kaiser 3 The Early Modern Iconography of Europe: Visual Images and European Identity Michael Wintle 4 Did Europe Exist in the Parish before 1800? The Allegory of Europe and Her Three Siblings in Folk Culture Marion Romberg 5 Rubens' Europe and the Pax Hispanica Ulrich Heinen Part 2: Centralising Europe: Constructions of Peripheries and Boundaries 6 Cartographic Manipulations: Framing the Centre of Europe in ca. 1500 Katharina N. Piechocki 7 Conflicts of Meaning: the Word Europe in Sixteenth-Century French Writing Niall Oddy 8 Portugal and the Early Modern Discourse on Europe Peter Hanenberg 9 How Did Venetian Diplomatic Envoys Define Europe, Its Divisions, Centres and Peripheries (ca. 1570-1645)? Piotr Chmiel 10 Conceptualising Asia, Africa and Europa in a Polemic on the Origin of Bohemians (1615-1617): Supranational Geographical Units and a Humanist Competition for 'National Honour' Lucie Storchova 11 Europe or Not? Early Sixteenth-Century European Descriptions of Muscovy and the Russian Responses Ovanes Akopyan Part 3: Balancing Europe: Discourses of Plurality and Power 12 Liberty and Participation: Governance Ideals in the Self-Fashioning of Sixteenth- to Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe Niels Grune and Stefan Ehrenpreis 13 Geopolitical Instruction and the Construction of Europe in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Texts Isabella Walser-Burgler 14 The European Network and National Identity: Italian Journalism in the Early Eighteenth Century from Il Giornale de' letterati d'Italia to Il Gran giornale d'Europa Enrico Zucchi 15 Europe as a Political System, an Ideal and a Selling Point: the Renger Series (1704-1718) Volker Bauer Index Nominum

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Compared to previous research on the discursive construction of Europe , the volume differs in three respects: Firstly, it takes into account little-noticed spatial peripheries and their sources in the various national languages and in Neo-Latin. This multi-perspectivity positively sets the volume apart from many other English-language compilations. Second, the contributions expand the range of sources to include a multitude of visual media and text genres. Third, with the 250 years from the late 15th to the early 18th century, it deals with the pre-Enlightenment part of the early modern period, which is often left out. (translated from German) Joachim Berger, Leibniz Institute of European History, in H-Soz-Kult, 15.12.2020 Gegenuber bisherigen Forschungen zur diskursiven Konstruktion Europas unterscheidet sich der Band in dreifacher Hinsicht: Er berucksichtigt erstens wenig beachtete raumliche Peripherien und ihre Quellen in den verschiedenen Landessprachen und im Neulateinischen. Diese Multiperspektivitat erstreckt sich zudem auf die (auch osteuropaische) Forschungsliteratur, die rezipiert wird; das hebt den Band positiv von manch anderem englischsprachigen Sammelwerk ab. Zweitens besteigen die Beitrage nicht nur die Hoehenkamme des Schrifttums und der bildenden Kunste, sondern erweitern das Quellenspektrum um eine Vielzahl visueller Medien und Textgattungen. Drittens behandelt er mit den gut 250 Jahren vom spaten 15. zum fruhen 18. Jahrhundert den voraufklarerischen Teil der Fruhneuzeit, der aufgrund von Peter Burkes wirkmachtigem Zweifel, ob es vor 1700 ein auf Europa bezogenes collective consciousness gegeben habe, haufig ausgespart wurde. Joachim Berger, Leibniz Institute of European History, in H-Soz-Kult, 15.12.2020


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Nicolas Detering, Ass.-Prof. Dr. (* 1985), is assistant professor of German Literature at the University of Bern. He specialises in early modern literature and has published on German poetry and ideas of Europe in the seventeenth century. Clementina Marsico, Dr. (* 1983), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, is a researcher of Italian Humanism. She has published monographs, editions and commentaries, collected volumes and many articles on Renaissance Italy in general and Lorenzo Valla in particular. Isabella Walser-Burgler, Dr. (* 1988), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, is key researcher at that institute. She has published various editions and articles on the Neo-Latin novel, the concept of Europe in Neo-Latin literature, and university orations.

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