The bases of European identity in antiquity, middle ages and in modernity - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v33i1.13244

Authors

  • Peter Johann Mainka Universität Würzburg, Würzburg Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v33i1.13244

Keywords:

Europe, European identity, European history

Abstract

The process of European unification started immediately after the II World War. It comprised all the areas of State and society (legislation, jurisdiction, politics, economy, institutions and others) in the twenty-seven countries, highly different in their traditions and history and which now make up the European Community. Which are the intellectual bases and the cultural values, which are the ideas and memories that give Europe a coherent identity shared, at least theoretically, by the European population of approximately 500 million people? Europe's intellectual bases go back to Antiquide, to the Middle Ages and to Modernity. Current essay will provide some of Europe's common principles posited in the Middle Ages and in Modernity (for instance, Christianity, Humanism and Illuminism) and will discuss their importance within Euopean identity

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Author Biography

  • Peter Johann Mainka, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
    Possui mestrado pelo Institut für Geschichte - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (1988) e doutorado em Neuere und Neueste Geschichte - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (1994). Atualmente é colaborador científico (professor) na Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Foi professor e pesquisador visitante na Universidade Estadual de Maringá (PR) entre 1999 e 2004; 2008 e 2009. Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: história dos tempos modernos, tempos modernos, século xvi, século xviii e filosofia política.

Published

2011-05-23

Issue

Section

History of Education

How to Cite

Mainka, P. J. (2011). The bases of European identity in antiquity, middle ages and in modernity - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v33i1.13244. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 33(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v33i1.13244

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