Contesting Europe

Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400–1800

Nicolas Detering, Clementina Marsico, Isabella Walser-Bürgler (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
9789004376052 (ISBN)

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This collective volume examines the prevalence and variability of early modern discourses on Europe; it considers both Latin and vernacular texts from various fields of study in order to shed new light on how the concept of Europe evolved in its early days.

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 Grüne, Peter Hanenberg, Ulrich Heinen, Ronny Kaiser, Niall Oddy, Katharina N. Piechocki, Dennis Pulina, Marion Romberg, Lucie Storchová, Isabella Walser-Bürgler, Michael Wintle, and Enrico Zucchi.

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-Bürgler, 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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Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe (1400–1800) — an Introduction

Nicolas Detering, Clementina Marsico and Isabella Walser-Bürgler

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 Andrés 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 Storchová

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 Grüne and Stefan Ehrenpreis

13 Geopolitical Instruction and the Construction of Europe in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Texts

Isabella Walser-Bürgler

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Intersections ; 67
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	876 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9789004376052 / 9789004376052
Zustand	Neuware