… of Europe and over two millennia. The result is the most coherent overview of this period of
European … A great strength of this book is the broad European perspective, which allows the …

… on the idea of Europe, the social history of the consciousness of Europe remains to be …
sketches for part of that future history. In ancient Greek texts, Europe appears not only as the …

… and readable guide to many aspects of European cultural history. It is Peter Rietbergen’s …
Certainly at the beginning of what most people term European history, ie well before the fifth …

… history of Christianity had provided the narrative which had formed Europe and taken out of
this narrative, Europe … In a time of cultural and political ambiguity, The Making of Europe is an …

… advances in the field of gender history, making comparisons and contrasts possible. Material
permitting the extension of this study to eastern Europe is at present lacking. Nor will the …

… At the end of this second millennium AD, as Europe achieves a degree of political unity it
has never before experienced and frontiers become increasingly irrelevant, we have an …

… [A]s we all know, events must run their course before becoming history, so that all true
history exists only by virtue of its conclusion, and begins its historical career from there.8 …

… His life indeed almost covers the century, and the Methodist body had passed through
every phase of its history before he sank into the grave at the age of eightyeight. It would have …

… happened before one was born is to remain always a child’.3 An investigation of the history
… August 1914 and ending with the collapse of European communism in 1989–91.4 The date …

… This volume has a long history. Its first version was published in 1982 in Hungary, where in
five … I joined the faculty of the history department in 1990, and the past years have offered an …