Border Identities in the Early Modern Period

This work discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth-century nationalisms.

Autorentext

Neva Makuc, PhD, historian and Italianist, is a researcher at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), more precisely at Milko Kos Historical Institute and the Research Station Nova Gorica. N. Makuc collaborates with the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica.

Inhalt

1 The Principles of Studying Early Modern Collective Identities

2 Sources: Historiography of Friuli and the County of Gorizia

3 Italian Patriotism and the Stereotypical View of "Others"

4 Territorial Identities and Transcending Linguistic and Alleged Ethnic Differences

5 The Slovenian Population and Its Ancestors in Light of Italian Patriotism and Provincial Identity