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Author Detering, Nicholas

Title Contesting Europe : Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe, 1400-1800
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (404 pages)
Series Intersections Ser
Intersections Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Part 1 Embodying Europe: Allegories of the Self and the Other -- Chapter 1 Rivalry of Lament: Early Personifications of Europein Neo-Latin Panegyrics for Charles V and Francis I -- Chapter 2 Tota caduca et dehiscens -- Europe's Critical Condition in Andrés Laguna's Europa (1543) -- Chapter 3 The Early Modern Iconography of Europe: Visual Images and European Identity
Chapter 4 Did Europe Exist in the Parish before 1800? The Allegory of Europe and Her Three Siblings in Folk Culture -- Chapter 5 Rubens' Europe and the Pax Hispanica -- Part 2 Centralising Europe: Constructions of Peripheries and Boundaries -- Chapter 6 Cartographic Manipulations: Framing the Centre of Europe in ca. 1500 -- Chapter 7 Conflicts of Meaning: the Word Europe in Sixteenth-Century French Writing -- Chapter 8 Portugal and the Early Modern Discourse on Europe -- Chapter 9 How Did Venetian Diplomatic Envoys Define Europe, Its Divisions, Centres and Peripheries (ca. 1570-1645)?
Chapter 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' -- Chapter 11 Europe or Not? Early Sixteenth-Century European Descriptions of Muscovy and the Russian Responses -- Part 3 Balancing Europe: Discourses of Plurality and Power -- Chapter 12 Liberty and Participation: Governance Ideals in the Self-Fashioning of Sixteenth- to Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Chapter 13 Geopolitical Instruction and the Construction of Europe in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin Texts
Chapter 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 -- Chapter 15 Europe as a Political System, an Ideal and a Selling Point: the Renger Series (1704-1718) -- Index Nominum
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Subject Group identity -- Europe -- History
National characteristics, European.
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
Discourse analysis -- Europe
Civilization.
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
Discourse analysis.
Group identity.
National characteristics, European.
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization -- History
Subject Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Marsico, Clementina
Walser-Bürgler, Isabella
ISBN 9789004414716
9004414711