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Mapping early modern centres and peripheries: 'marginality' in an east-central European context
Regina Poertner 
Studia Historia, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 14
Swansea University Author:
Regina Poertner
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Abstract
This article critically appraises the heuristic plausibility and usefulness of centre-periphery models for explaining processes of cultural transformation in early modern Europe. The confessional history of 17th and 18th c Hungary is explored with a view to assessing the significance of (supposed) h...
| Published in: | Studia Historia |
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2014
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25652 |
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This article critically appraises the heuristic plausibility and usefulness of centre-periphery models for explaining processes of cultural transformation in early modern Europe. The confessional history of 17th and 18th c Hungary is explored with a view to assessing the significance of (supposed) historical 'marginality' for our understanding of processes of identity formation in a period and region that defies easy classification in terms of its place in the grand narrative of the making of the European nation state. |
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centre-periphery, marginality, ethnicity, early modern Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia |
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1 |
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1 |
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14 |