Finding Europe Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images [Hardcover]

In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europes values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emphasizes the process of European construction. The first conceives of Europes past teleologically, as a process by which certain values (Christian ethics, individualism, capitalism, tolerance, republicanism, due process, etc.) were affirmed and came to define European culture. The second approach rejects the discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of the concept of Europe, and the political and ideological implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations) during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element, with the constructivist interpretation.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction

A Harlequins Dress: Reflections on Europes Public Discourse
Anthony Molho

Rethinking the History of Europe: Old and New Approaches
Diogo Ramada Curto

PART I: MARGINS

Chapter 1.Crypto-identities: Disguised Turks, Christians and Jews
Giovanni Ricci

Chapter 2.Segregation, Migration and Recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the First Modernity: The Case of Semitic Spain
Andr? Stoll

Chapter 3.Gender and the Body
Giulia Calvi

Chapter 4.Magic and Witchcraft
Stuart Clark

PART II: COMMUNITIES

Chapter 5.A Republic of Merchants?
Francesca Trivellato

Chapter 6