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

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.

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.

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