Ideas of Europe in the making: how the formation of modern Europe and its conceptualizations ran parallel.
This course aims first of all to define and clarify the main lines along which early modern Europe developed. The diverse modes of growth of the new national states, the impact of the Reformation (and later of the Reformations) and the rise of new political and religious issues, the conflict between absolutism and republicanism, between nations and cosmopolitanism: these are some of the themes that will be at the backdrop of our analysis of the formation of different ideas of Europe. The tensions between the idea of the primacy of the individuality of nations and the idea of a unified European civilization are still at the core of our ideal and political belongingness.

for attending students:

Ernest Renan, Che cos’è una nazione?, Roma, Donzelli, 2004

Lucien Febvre, L' Europa. Storia di una civiltà (1944-45), Roma, Donzelli, 1999 (o altre edizioni)

Federico Chabod, Storia dell’idea d’Europa, Bari, Laterza (qualsiasi edizione)

Marcello Verga, Storie d’Europa, Roma, Carocci, 2017


for non attending students:
al programma per frequentanti si aggiunge, a scelta:

H. Mikeli, Europa. Storia di un’idea e di un’identità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002

A. Pagden, The Idea of Europe. From Antiquity to the European Union, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.