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The interdisciplinary series "Law & Literature" takes a systematic look at the correlation between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelation between two cultural spheres which are not only at the basis of Western Culture and Society, but share in a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a trend in current inter- and transdisciplinary research which has recently shown rapid growth both in Europe and the United States.

Law and literature. --- European identity. --- European values. --- borders and migration. --- civil and human rights.

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What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer masculinities in European popular culture, queer national identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.

Queer theory --- Europe --- Civilization. --- European identity. --- French cinema. --- Italian cinema. --- National identity. --- Popular culture. --- Postcolonialism. --- Queer theory. --- gender.

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In A Community of Europeans?, a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary "European identity" to complement their national identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence of transnational European communities of communication. Exploring the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do "Europe" and "the EU" mean in the various public debates? How do European identities and transnational public spheres affect policymaking in the EU? And how do they matter in discussions about enlargement, particularly Turkish accession to the EU? What will be the consequences of the growing contestation and politicization of European affairs for European democracy? This focus on identity allows Risse to address the "democratic deficit" of the EU, the disparity between the level of decision making over increasingly relevant issues for peoples' lives (at the EU) and the level where politics plays itself out-in the member states. He argues that the EU's democratic deficit can only be tackled through politicization and that "debating Europe" might prove the only way to defend modern and cosmopolitan Europe against the increasingly forceful voices of Euroskepticism.

Group identity --- Transnationalism --- Social integration --- Nationalism --- European federation --- Public opinion --- Social aspects --- Public opinion. --- european identity, european integration, policymaking in the eu, democratic deficit of the eu, euroskepticism.

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Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.

Marriages of royalty and nobility --- Morganatic marriages --- Royal marriages --- Kings and rulers --- Nobility --- History --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- 1600-1714 --- 1604-1630. --- Alliances. --- Continental Dynastic Politics. --- Cultural Politics. --- Dynastic Marriages. --- Dynastic Politics. --- European Context. --- European Identity. --- Stuart Marriage Diplomacy. --- Wars.

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Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an “other” which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions in this volume analyze characteristics and strategies of European and non-European identity discourses. Der Begriff, die Funktion und die Relevanz von ‚Identität‘ werden in unterschiedlichen geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sehr kontrovers diskutiert. Der vorliegende Band befördert den inter- und transdisziplinären Dialog, indem er Beiträge aus der Anglistik, Ethnologie, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Psychologie, Slavistik und Islamwissenschaft versammelt. Sie analysieren Merkmale und Strategien inner- und außereuropäischer Identitätsdiskurse – nationale, regionale, lokale, religiöse, sprachliche – und widmen sich Themen wie der Bildung „verspäteter Nationen“ (Deutschland, Italien, Ukraine), Konflikten zwischen kulturellen und nationalen Identitätskonzepten, der Abgrenzung von einem als Alterität markierten ‚Anderen‘, Strategien der Etablierung und Kritik von Identitätsdiskursen in Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur und Medien sowie der Funktionalisierung von Ursprungsmythen in den imagined communities nationalistischer Ideologien.

Group identity. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Europe --- Civilization --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- European identity --- nation building --- concepts of identity