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

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