Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political
visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative
and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed
self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this
volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined
between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what
purposes was Europe made into a subject of discourse? Which forms
did early modern 'Europes' take, and what functions did they serve?
Essays examine the role of factors such as religion, history, space
and geography, ethnicity and alterity, patronage and dynasty,
migration and education, language, translation, and narration for
the ways in which Europe turned into an 'imagined community.' The
thematic range of the volume comprises early modern texts in
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and
Spanish, including plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as
cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals,
and political polemics. Literary negotiations in particular
foreground the creative potential, versatility, and agency that
inhere in the process of Europeanization, as well as a specifically
early modern attitude towards the past and tradition emblematized
in the poetics of the period. There is a clear continuity between
the collection's approach to European identities and the focus of
cultural and postcolonial studies on the constructed nature of
collective identities at large: the chapters build on the insights
produced by these fields over the past decades and apply them, from
various angles, to a subject that has so far largely eluded
critical attention. This volume examines what existing and
well-established work on identity and alterity, hybridity and
margins has to contribute to an understanding of the largely
un-examined and under-theorized 'pre-formative' period of European
identity.
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