Anthony Molho

Diogo Ramada Curto

In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe’s values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emphasizes the process of European “construction.” The first conceives of Europe’s past teleologically, as a process by which certain values (Christian ethics, individualism, capitalism, tolerance, republicanism, due process, etc.) were affirmed and came to define European culture. The second approach rejects the discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of the concept of Europe, and the political and ideological implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations) during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element, with the “constructivist” interpretation.

Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images

Finding Europe

Niki Koniordos

"This is an important collection and starting point for the worthy goal of promoting a better understanding of the past that makes it less able to be manipulated for contemporary political and religious aims...Compiled out of the European past, its aim of a better understanding of traditional values ought to be useful for contemporary cultures and for the work of scholars of all cultures and continents." * Renaissance Quarterly In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe's values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emphasizes the process of European "construction." The first conceives of Europe's past teleologically, as a process by which certain values (Christian ethics, individualism, capitalism, tolerance, republicanism, due process, etc.) were affirmed and came to define European culture. The second approach rejects the discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of the concept of Europe, and the political and ideological implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations) during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach, albeit devoid of its teleological element, with the "constructivist" interpretation.

Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images Ca. 13th - Ca. 18th Centuries

Insegna Studi Mediterranei all'Istituto Universitario Europeo di Fiesole; è stato fellow di Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies a Firenze) e Visiting Professor all'Università degli Studi di Firenze e all'Università di Atene. Ha pubblicato Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance e Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence (ambedue presso la Harvard University Press). Con Franek Sznura ha curato l'edizione di Alle Bocche della Piazza. Diario di anonimo fiorentino (1382-1401 (Olschki, 1986). Per le Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura ha pubblicato Firenze nel Quattrocento. Vol. I, Politica e fiscalità (2006).

Firenze Nel Quattrocento: Politica e fiscalità

How did propertied families in late medieval and early modern Florence maintain their power and affluence while clans elsewhere were fatally undermined by the growth of commerce and personal freedom and the consequences of the Plague? Molho suggests that the answer is found in the twin institutions of arranged marriage and the dowry.

Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence

Essays in Honour of Anthony Mohlo

From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond

Gordon S. Wood

This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late nineteenth century through its present, more cosmopolitan character. In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological survey of non-American histories, including that of Western civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber, Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict, Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck. Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this book.

Anthony Molho

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