Maritime Disasters and Collective Identities: Surviving Shipwreck in Early Modern Portugal

Hispania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-555
Author(s):  
Estela Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Collective Identities

scholarly journals The Study of Nation and Patria as Communities of Identity: Theory, Historiography, and Methodology from the Spanish Case

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Pablo Sánchez León
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Modern Period

This article argues for a renovation in the study of nationalism by addressing the issue of the rationality underlying the decisions by citizens willing to leave their homelands. From the example of unforced exiles from the 1939 Republican diaspora (and inner exiles as well), the text starts with providing a theory of disidentification from a nation for the sake of civic commitment. Having shown the relevance of jointly studying the language of nation and patria, it focuses on Spanish post-Francoist historiography of the Early modern period for showing its unbalanced account of discourse revolving around patria in favor of that of nation. Thereafter, it provides a comparative overview of the scholarly interest in patriotism in modern history as depending on different national trajectories of political culture. Finally, it claims a methodological reorientation in the study of nationalism and patriotism by distinguishing between nation and patria as terms, as concepts, and as analytical categories defining distinctive collective identities.

Domestic space and identity: artisans, shopkeepers and traders in sixteenth-century Siena

Urban History ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULA HOHTI
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:Historians of early modern Italy have traditionally viewed the city's public spaces, such as streets, quarters, taverns and marketplaces, as the chief locations in which claims to identity were launched into the broader urban community. Recent studies on the domestic interior, however, have shown that the distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century urban space was much more complex. In this period, private urban houses became sites for an increasing range of social acitvities that varied from informal evening gatherings to large wedding banquets. Focusing on this ‘public’ dimension of the private urban house, this article explores how the middling classes of artisans and shopkeepers used the domestic space to construct identities and to facilitate social relations in sixteenth-century Siena. The aim is to show that in providing a setting for differing forms of economic and social activity, the urban home together with its objects and furnishings may have provided an increasingly important physical location for craftsmen, shop-owners and traders to negotaite individual and collective identities within the broader communities of the city.

Recollection in the Republics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imogen Peck
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Women Veterans ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Local Discourses

Following the execution of Charles I in January 1649, England’s fledgling republic was faced with a dilemma: which parts of the nation’s bloody recent past should be remembered, and how, and which were best consigned to oblivion? Across the country, the state’s opponents, local communities, and individual citizens were grappling with many of the same questions, as calls for remembrance vied with the competing goals of reconciliation, security, and the peaceful settlement of the state. Recollection in the Republics provides the first comprehensive study of the ways Britain’s Civil Wars were remembered in the decade between the regicide and the restoration. Drawing on a wide-ranging and innovative source base, it places the national authorities’ attempts to shape the meaning of the recent past alongside evidence of what the English people—lords and labourers, men and women, veterans and civilians—actually were remembering. It demonstrates that memories of the domestic conflicts were central to the politics and society of the republican interval, inflecting national and local discourses, complicating and transforming interpersonal relationships, and infusing and forging individual and collective identities. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of the nature of early modern memory and the experience of post-civil war states more broadly. Described as ‘ground breaking’ and an ‘intellectually brilliant’ work by ‘one of the outstanding talents of her generation’, Recollection in the Republics makes a major contribution to the fields of both early modern history and memory studies.

The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Denzey Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Late Antique
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