Memories in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Subtitle: Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from C. 1000 to the Present, I
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9782503588902
Subjects: World history
Description: This first volume of the project focuses on the cohesive function of memory, tradition, and identity politics in multi-ethnic societies. Featuring chapters written by authors from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe, it presents sixteen case studies of the co-habitation or co-operation of different ethnic groups from the so-called "peripheries" of medieval and early modern Europe that resulted in peaceful acculturation or the birth of a new identity on the basis of multi-ethnic political society. The volume suggests that ethnic identities were consciously accepted as one among various forms of identity that were possessed by social groups: they were rarely absolutized, and members of these groups preferred pragmatic approaches in their relations with other ethnicities.