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It appears the distinction between these two continents was more significant than the singularity of Europe against Asia Hay,p. While Europe was in the process of becoming a clearly defined entity. As a cultural framework Europe became the euro;e The Westernisation of Europe 31 normative idea of a civilisation that was in the process of expanding over- eutope, but as the name of that civilisation’s geographical territory it was faced with the problem that a considerable pan lay under Ottoman suzerainty.
The most significant of these were the wars against the Muslims in Spain which, like the crusades that were to follow, were conceived of as Holy Wars against the infidel. I definetely enjoyed the reading. The Limits of Europe: Pope Pius II frequently used the word Europe in the context of the Islamic advance, though the traditional notion of Christendom was more fre- The Westernisation of Europe 37 quently employed, and we find such expressions commonplace in the lan- guage of diplomacy: In this transformation Europe becomes part of a hegemonical cultural discourse.
Strengthened with an official liturgy and a centrally organised and militant episcopacy, Europe evolved a new counter-offensive against the Muslim Orient. The Shifting Frontier 48 5. Constantinople, renamed Istanbul, the city of Islam, was now the capital of the Sunni empire of the Ottomans.
Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality
The clas- sical revival it ushered in was not merely Frankish but cosmopolitan, with scholars coming to the imperial court at Aachen from all parts of Europe. The idea of Europe gave to medieval Christendom a sense of territorial unity, though not a specific identity. The Aeneid, gave poetic expression to euro;e myth of the ori- gins of the Roman nation.
Nicolas Fafchamps rated it it was ok Jan 02, From the tenth century onwards in the wake of the break-up of the Carolingian empire the restored Roman empire, under Otto I, shifted to Germany and away from the innventing Franks. Curio 1DuroselleFoersterGollwitzerHeatherde Rougement and Voyenneto mention the more significant ones.
Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality by Gerard Delanty
Europe had not been a clearly defined geo-polit- ical framework until it became invehting as the territory of the German rulers of the Reich. Nevertheless, I do hope that the book will be of interest to the specialised historian for the theoretical perspectives and broader context it offers. Hellas was seen as the land of culture and civilisation and beyond it was barbarism.
Apparently the Byzantines, like thcMuslims. The present study emerged out of my research and teaching on national identity and political culture over the past live years.
In the Middle Ages this was Christianity against Islam; in the early modern period it was the victory of civilisation over nature. Want to Read saving….
As a strictly geographical concept there are studies by Cahnman ,” Louis and Parker A theory of the invention of Europeseeks to explain how the idea of Europe becomes attached to processes of collective identity formation, which reinforce the dominance of the centre over the periphery. Its challenging thesis is that the European idea has lent itself to a politics of division and exclusion, which has been disguised by superficial notions of unity.
Karolis Jonutis rated it really liked it Sep 04, An indictment of an entire inventinv, this celebrated work of the ‘Frankfurt School’ of critical theory poses the question of the very possibili- ty of a European identity in delanth wake of the Holocaust.
Europe, as a result of the process of disintegration during the Dark Ages, in fact succeeded in discarding the burden of Antiquity, in the form of the ancient empires, and wurope therefore outpace the eastern empire and the oriental inventign whose development had been retarded by the yoke of pre-feudal modes of production Anderson, a. The relative advancement of the East was ultimately an expression of the sur- vival of Antiquity.
The limits and sibility of the European idea as a basis of collective identity is what this book is about. Books by Gerard Delanty.
It is possible that this feud provided the terms of reference for the conflict of Europe and Asia in later centuries. After the defeat of Macedonia by Rome in bc, Greek civilisation moved from the eastern Mediterranean to its western shores.
Western Europe was weak in comparison with the Orient. Chapter 9 is addressed to the implication of the collapse of the Cold War consensus for the idea of Europe.
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The reforms that were carried out by the 26 Inventing Europe The Origins of the Idea of Europe 27 emperors Diocletian and Constantine enabled only the eastern part of the Eueope Empire, the Byzantine empire, to survive.
The word 1 Christendom was used from the ninth century Phillips, So, Occident and Orient evolved to refer to the two halves of the Roman Empire.
Europe— Politics and government.