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From Christians to Europeans - Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity (Hardcover)
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From Christians to Europeans - Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity (Hardcover)
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Providing the first in-depth examination of Pope Pius II's
development of the concept of Europe and what it meant to be
'European', From Christians to Europeans charts his life and work
from his early years as a secretary in Northern Europe to his
papacy. This volume introduces students and scholars to the concept
of Europe by an important and influential early thinker. It also
provides Renaissance specialists who already know him with the
fullest consideration to date of how and why Pius (1405-1464)
constructed the idea of a unified European culture, society, and
identity. Author Nancy Bisaha shows how Pius's years of travel, his
emotional response to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the
impact of classical ethnography and other works shaped this
compelling vision - with close readings of his letters, orations,
histories, autobiography, and other works. Europeans, as Pius
boldly defined them, shared a distinct character that made them
superior to the inhabitants of other continents. The reverberations
of his views can still be felt today in debates about identity,
ethnicity, race, and belonging in Europe and more generally. This
study explores the formation of this problematic notion of
privilege and separation-centuries before the modern era, where
most scholars have erroneously placed its origins. From Christians
to Europeans adds substantially to our understanding of the
Renaissance as a critical time of European self-fashioning and the
creation of a modern "Western" identity. This book is essential
reading for students and scholars interested in the formation of
modern Europe, intellectual history, cultural studies, the history
of Renaissance Europe and late medieval Italy and the Ottoman
Empire.
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