Nations Before the Nation-State : Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present / Anna Marisa Schon
Schon, Anna Marisa.
Book Content
The nation-state paradigm -- A project of conceptual recovery -- Political imagination -- Liberal multiculturalism and constitutional patriotism -- Selection of sources and overview of the book -- Some preliminary conclusions -- What is a nation? A brief historiography of theories of the nation -- Romantic beginnings -- Classical modernism and the state -- The modernist bogeyman -- Ethno-symbolism and its critics -- Getting our history less wrong -- A tale of two fatherlands: Ancient conceptions of nationhood -- Ancient sources of Hellenicity -- Greek patriotism -- The bonds of humanity -- Roman citizenship and legal pluralism -- Nations in the vulgate -- Religion, law, and people-hood in biblical Judaea -- Post-Roman transitions: National identity in the wake of the empire -- Cassiodorus' imperial propaganda -- Ethnonyms and etymologies -- Isidore's appropriation of empire -- Historiography as political theory -- Medieval imperialism: National diversity and universal order -- World government and its alternatives -- Dante imagines the nation -- Humanity's intellectual unity -- Difference as punishment, difference as pleasure -- Consent as the foundation of empire -- Nationality and the medieval "state" in France -- Medieval international relations -- Dubois' .multinational vision for the Holy Land -- A pre-national defense of political particularism -- Participatory citizenship in the footsteps of Marsiglio of Padua -- Love for king and country -- The nation at a crossroads -- Absolute and limited government in the thought of John Fortescue -- Royal absolutism and the pursuit of uniformity -- Nationalizing the state, politicizing the nation -- One king, one law, one nation -- The myth of antiquity -- English exceptionalism revisited.
