Review of periodical articles: 1500–1800

Why 1500? Why 1800? Why does Urban History's review of periodical literature use this definition of the early modern? Does urban history have a periodization of its own? The reluctance of historians to stray before and after 1800 is a major theme of C.R. Friedrichs's review of early modern German urban history, ‘But are we any closer to home? Early modern German urban history since German Home Towns’, Central European History, 30 (1998), 163–86, and I wondered about these issues while reading some of the articles published this year which did not stop and surrender their historical passports at 1500.

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Citizenship in Chinese and Global History Before and After the 1890s

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s002085902000005x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 125-133

Author(s):

R. Bin Wong

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Social Economic ◽

European History ◽

Early Modern Europe ◽

Global History ◽

European Citizenship ◽

Before And After ◽

Persuasive Arguments ◽

First Time ◽

Institutional Foundations

AbstractMaarten Prak's Citizens without Nations merits praise for what he has added to our understanding of early modern and modern European history. He presents persuasive arguments and evidence for how variations among early modern European cities and their citizens together with subsequent variations among relations between cities and state shaped the modern relations between European national states and their citizens. Prak also extends the concept of citizenship to China and the Ottoman Empire where neither the ideological, nor the institutional features of European citizenship existed by discussing Chinese and Ottoman urban social, economic, and political practices that in early modern Europe relate to citizenship. Such a move makes invisible the early modern ideological and institutional foundations of the Chinese and Ottoman practices he recounts. It additionally creates the problem of determining how, if at all, what he calls Chinese and Ottoman citizenship mattered to nineteenth-century Chinese and Ottoman subjects as they encountered for the first time Western notions of citizenship. In order to write global history, we need more studies of Chinese, Ottoman, and other histories, which explain the changing political architecture of relations between people and those who ruled them to complement what Maarten Prak's fine study of citizens without nations gives us for European history.

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Introduction

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938900016873 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 4-13

Author(s):

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Early Modern ◽

Cultural History ◽

North American ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

European History ◽

Holy Roman Empire ◽

Central European ◽

Modern Period ◽

Works Of Art

This issue of Central European History may at first seem some-what unexpected. All the following papers pertain to the early modern period. All of them moreover originated in connection with an exhibition of works of art, “Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680. A Selection from North American Collections,” its published catalogue, and a symposium, “The Culture of the Holy Roman Empire, 1540–1680,” held on the occasion of the exhibition's opening. The papers published in this issue are accordingly essays in art, literary, intellectual, and, more generally, cultural history; some words may be needed to explain how they come to appear here now.

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Growing Up with Central European History

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938918000298 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 23-25

Author(s):

Doris L. Bergen

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Central Europe ◽

European History ◽

Academic Publishing ◽

Growing Up ◽

Professional Networks ◽

Central European ◽

University Of Alberta ◽

Original Works ◽

The University

Central European History (CEH) was the first scholarly journal I really got to know, and for more than thirty years, it has been important to me in all kinds of ways. I first encountered CEH as a Master's student at the University of Alberta, where my primary supervisor was the extraordinary Annelise Thimme, author of highly original works on Hans Delbrück, Gustav Stresemann, and the Deutschnationale Volkspartei. The discipline of history was new to me, and although I had taken some interesting undergraduate classes on early modern and modern history at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Munich, I had no idea about historiography, professional networks, or academic publishing. I probably did not even understand what the term Central Europe meant.

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El discurso anti-islámico castellano: de disputa teológica a cimiento del proyecto universalista carolino (1460–1530)

Medieval Encounters ◽

10.1163/15700674-12340050 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 381-424

Author(s):

Constanza Cavallero

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

European History ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Modern Period ◽

Before And After ◽

Early Modern Era ◽

Modern Era ◽

Christian Discourse

Abstract From a comparative perspective, I will study two anti-Islamic Castilian writings produced during the period of the transition between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era: Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium fidei (1460) and Gonzalo de Arredondo’s Castillo inexpugnable defensorio de la fe (1528). This study compares the terms in which each of these works addresses (a) the confrontation with Islam, (b) dissensions within Christianity, and (c) the king’s role in the midst of those conflicts. The contrastive approach to these analogous works, which were written almost seven decades apart, will allow an analysis of two different articulations of anti-Saracen Christian discourse in Spain, both before and after some key milestones in European history. These different perceptions of Islam had an impact on the conception of Christianity and Europe itself at the very beginning of the early modern period.

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