Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. A Harlequin’s Dress 1
6. Rethinking the History of Europe: Old and New Approaches 19
7. Part I: Margins
8. Chapter 1 Crypto-identities 39
9. Chapter 2 Segregation, Migration and Recuperation of the Orient in Mediterranean Europe during the First Modernity 55
10. Chapter 3 Gender and the Body 89
11. Chapter 4 Magic and Witchcraft 115
12. Part II: Communities
13. Chapter 5 A Republic of Merchants? 133
14. Chapter 6 A European Community of Scholars 159
15. Chapter 7 The Court Galaxy 185
16. Chapter 8 Rites of Passage and the Grand Tour 205
17. Chapter 9 Citizenship and the Language of Statecraft 223
18. Chapter 10 Images of Law in Europe 253
19. Chapter 11 Resisting Public Violence 273
20. Part III: Images
21. Chapter 12 The Tree 293
22. Chapter 13 From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment … through Antiquity 315
23. Chapter 14 Sainthood and Heroism 335
24. Chapter 15 Latin 359
25. French Abstracts. Résumés en Français 377
26. Index of Names and Places 387