@inbook{f4aa765b7f5247adbcbed7a564781f31,
title = "Writing Christendom in the English Renaissance: A reappraisal of Denys Hay's view of the emergence of 'Europe'",
abstract = "This volume presents selected proceedings of a conference held at St Andrews University in 2007 exploring the collective and cultural persona implied by Europe's interaction with non-Europeans. This essay, which frames an historicist introduction to the contents, argues that the hegemonic idea of Europe from its inception generated 'Otherness' within the supposed homeland geopolitical identities, using Europe's proximate neighbours to generate categories of insider difference. A comparison of essays on 'European' identity written in the 1590s and the 1950s reveals that as supposedly secular ideas of Europe emerged from medieval Christendom, and as the European economic community was formed in the cold war period, both trailed with them a freight of ideological baggage that could be used to represent diversity as alien. ",
keywords = "Identity, Europe, Christendom, EEC",
author = "Pettegree, {Jane Karen}",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-03911-968-4",
volume = "18",
series = "Cultural Identity Studies",
publisher = "Peter Lang",
pages = "39--57",
editor = "Paul Gifford and Tessa Hauswedell and Helen Chambers",
booktitle = "Europe and Its Others",
}