Contesting Europe

Nicolas Detering, Ass.-Prof. Dr. (* 1985), is assistant professor of German Literature at the University of Bern. He specialises in early modern literature and has published on German poetry and ideas of Europe in the seventeenth century.Clementina Marsico, Dr. (* 1983), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, is a researcher of Italian Humanism. She has published monographs, editions and commentaries, collected volumes and many articles on Renaissance Italy in general and Lorenzo Valla in particular.Isabella Walser-Bürgler, Dr. (* 1988), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, is key researcher at that institute. She has published various editions and articles on the Neo-Latin novel, the concept of Europe in Neo-Latin literature, and university orations.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsContesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses on Europe (1400–1800) — an IntroductionNicolas Detering, Clementina Marsico and Isabella Walser-BürglerPart 1: Embodying Europe: Allegories of the Self and the Other1 Rivalry of Lament: Early Personifications of Europe in Neo-Latin Panegyrics for Charles V and Francis INicolas Detering and Dennis Pulina2 Tota caduca et dehiscens — Europe’s Critical Condition in Andrés Laguna’s Europa (1543)Ronny Kaiser3 The Early Modern Iconography of Europe: Visual Images and European IdentityMichael Wintle4 Did Europe Exist in the Parish before 1800? The Allegory of Europe and Her Three Siblings in Folk CultureMarion Romberg5 Rubens’ Europe and the Pax HispanicaUlrich HeinenPart 2: Centralising Europe: Constructions of Peripheries and Boundaries6 Cartographic Manipulations: Framing the Centre of Europe in ca. 1500Katharina N. Piechocki7 Conflicts of Meaning: the Word Europe in Sixteenth-Century French WritingNiall Oddy8 Portugal and the Early Modern Discourse on EuropePeter Hanenberg9 How Did Venetian Diplomatic Envoys Define Europe, Its Divisions, Centres and Peripheries (ca. 1570–1645)?Piotr Chmiel10 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’Lucie Storchová11 Europe or Not? Early Sixteenth-Century European Descriptions of Muscovy and the Russian ResponsesOvanes AkopyanPart 3: Balancing Europe: Discourses of Plurality and Power12 Liberty and Participation: Governance Ideals in the Self-Fashioning of Sixteenth- to Early-Eighteenth-Century EuropeNiels Grüne and Stefan Ehrenpreis13 Geopolitical Instruction and the Construction of Europe in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Latin TextsIsabella Walser-Bürgler14 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’EuropaEnrico Zucchi15 Europe as a Political System, an Ideal and a Selling Point: the Renger Series (1704–1718)Volker BauerIndex Nominum

"Compared to previous research on the discursive construction of “Europe”, the volume differs in three respects: Firstly, it takes into account little-noticed spatial peripheries and their sources in the various national languages and in Neo-Latin. This multi-perspectivity positively sets the volume apart from many other English-language compilations. Second, the contributions expand the range of sources to include a multitude of visual media and text genres. Third, with the 250 years from the late 15th to the early 18th century, it deals with the "pre-Enlightenment" part of the early modern period, which is often left out." (translated from German)Joachim Berger, Leibniz Institute of European History, in H-Soz-Kult, 15.12.2020"Gegenüber bisherigen Forschungen zur diskursiven Konstruktion „Europas“ unterscheidet sich der Band in dreifacher Hinsicht: Er berücksichtigt erstens wenig beachtete räumliche Peripherien und ihre Quellen in den verschiedenen Landessprachen und im Neulateinischen. Diese Multiperspektivität erstreckt sich zudem auf die (auch osteuropäische) Forschungsliteratur, die rezipiert wird; das hebt den Band positiv von manch anderem englischsprachigen Sammelwerk ab. Zweitens besteigen die Beiträge nicht nur die Höhenkämme des Schrifttums und der bildenden Künste, sondern erweitern das Quellenspektrum um eine Vielzahl visueller Medien und Textgattungen. Drittens behandelt er mit den gut 250 Jahren vom späten 15. zum frühen 18. Jahrhundert den „voraufklärerischen“ Teil der Frühneuzeit, der aufgrund von Peter Burkes wirkmächtigem Zweifel, ob es vor 1700 ein auf Europa bezogenes "collective consciousness" gegeben habe, häufig ausgespart wurde."Joachim Berger, Leibniz Institute of European History, in H-Soz-Kult, 15.12.2020