Constructing European Historical Narratives in the Early Modern World

Hilary J. Bernstein is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Historical Communities: Cities, Erudition, and National Identity in Early Modern France. Fabien Montcher is associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the director of the SLU Center for Iberian Historical Studies. He is the author of Mercenaries of Knowledge: Vicente Nogueira, the Republic of Letters, and the Making of Late Renaissance Politics. Megan Armstrong is professor of history at McMaster University and presently chair of the department. She is a specialist on religion and politics with a special focus on early modern Catholicism and the Holy Land. She is the author, most recently, of The Holy Land and the Early Modern Reinvention of Catholicism.

• Introduction Fabien Montcher and Hilary J. Bernstein I. Agency and Identity: Telling One’s StoryWhat’s in a Name? Attesting and Contesting Genoese Family History in the Sixteenth-Century AtlanticRichard Ibarra Crusading Engagements: French Nobles’ Family Histories of Religious ViolenceBrian Sandberg History Writing in Seventeenth-Century French ConventsLinda Lierheimer Avétik, Louis XIV’s Armenian Prisoner: Narratives of Confessional Conflict, Captivity, and Conversion in the Early Modern MediterraneanJunko Takeda Puritan Narratives of Encounters in Early Eighteenth-CenturyNew EnglandWeiao Xing II. Communities: Historical Collaborations, Engaged ArgumentsGenealogical Histories: A New Literary Genre for an Uncertain EliteJonathan Spangler Before the Bouillon Affair: The Counts of Auvergne and GenealogicalDebate in Early Modern FranceHilary J. Bernstein Writing History in Provins: Social Positioning and Political Commentary in a French Provincial Town in the Sixteenth andSeventeenth CenturiesNicolas Schapira Between Conflict and Collaboration: The Official Chronicler and the Construction of Community Histories in the Kingdom of Aragon and BeyondHéloïse Hermant An Alternative History of Early Modern Global Contacts? Constructing Historical Narratives of the European Trade Companies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Indravati Félicité III. Humanism and History: Textual Traditions and Lived ExperienceWriting a History of the Florentine Language: From the Aramei to the CruscaAnn E. Moyer Identifying with the Martyrs: Martyrology and National Historyin Ambrosio de MoralesKatherine Elliot van Liere Giants, Language, and Historical Narratives in 1700Anita Guerrini Weaving the Past into the Present: Joachim Jungius’s Historical Narratives of ‘Contemplative’ Textile Practices Seventeenth-CenturyHamburgMichael Friedman Volcano Aesthetics, Scholarly Ascents, and a Return to the Ancient Past in Early Modern EuropeOvanes Akopyan