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“Introduzione” a «Il documento immateriale. Ricerca storica e nuovi linguaggi»
No full textThe Author has edited and introduced this multi-authored collection of short essays on several aspects of the appearance of the new digital media and their consequences for the historical profession from the linguistic, methodological and publishing point of views
European encounters in the age of expansion
Full text linkThis essay, which is part of the section "Europe and the World" in "EGO-European History Online" (http://www.ieg-ego.eu/), proposes an overall reconstruction of the expanding process of Europe overseas in the early modern age and of the multiple forms of ‘encounter’ with ‘other’ peoples and cultures successively made by the European navigators, explorers, conquerors, colonizers, merchants and missionaries over nearly four centuries in America, East Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Such encounters have always had a double aspect. On the one hand they had practical consequences, as they involved the necessity to work out forms of direct and immediate approach with such peoples ‘on the spot’. In other words, they led, though conquest, colonization or commerce, to the establishment of modes of domination or coexistence and implied several aspects of transcultural relationships. On the other hand, the encounters with ‘otherness’ in the early modern age stimulated in Europe a complex intellectual and cognitive process directed at interpreting the origins and nature of such human and cultural (linguistic, religious and social) diversities. This enriched considerably the European views of world history and of the anthropological and sociological varieties of mankind, spurring in particular a wholly new kind of reflection on ‘savagery’ and ‘barbarism’, and leading to the authentic discovery not only of new geographic realities, but also of cultures, religions and languages totally unknown before. If it is possible to keep logically distinct these two aspects, in fact they remained closely connected, as the pressure of political and economic interests and of religious, cultural and racial prejudices always influenced the European perceptions of the ‘other’ and gave them an increasingly hierarchical turn, reinforced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by scientific paradigms. At the same time, observation of alien societies, cultures and religious opened new perspectives on extremely differentiated forms of human life, producing doubts and a critical attitude towards European Christian civilization.
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Abbattista, Guido : European Encounters in the Age of Expansion, in: Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO), hg. vom Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Mainz European History Online (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz Jan 24, 2011. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/abbattistag-2011-en URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-20101025326 [TT.MM.JJJJ]
Law, Justice and Codification in Qing China. European and Chinese Perspectives. Essays in History and Comparative Law, edited by Guido Abbattista
No full textThe present collection of five critical essays is a companion volume to the
republication of the rare 1812 Italian translation of the Da Qing lü li (Ta
Tsing Leu Lee in the English original transliteration), the Qing ‘penal code’,
which was first translated into English by the British Sinologue and East
India Company employee George Thomas Staunton in 1810. Staunton’s
text served as the basis for later European translations, including the
Italian one. The digital reprint of the 1812 Italian edition is a publishing
enterprise undertaken by EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, the Trieste
university press.
Staunton’s translation and the later versions in other European languages
can no longer be considered reliable tools for understanding Chinese
imperial law, as demonstrated by specialized translation studies. All these
translations nevertheless belong to a crucial phase of Western discourse on
China’s institutions, law and civilization, which is the main reason for the
present reprint and the accompanying critical essays.
This volume is intended to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue and
to contribute to a better understanding of institutions and the law as
central to the discourse on China in comparative law and in the history
of ideas and cultural history. It tries to achieve this by assuming both a
European and a Chinese perspective and moving from eighteenth-century
perceptions and representations to the reform initiatives and theoretical
discussions that continue to this day. The final result is hopefully an
enhanced awareness of the extremely important role that Sino-Western
encounters and comparisons have played, not only at a cultural level in
global history over several centuries, but also in today’s global politics and
economics in which we are coping daily with concrete, pressing issues of
reciprocal understanding in our efforts to achieve an enduringly peaceful
and fruitful coexistence.
Guido Abbattista, Chinese Law and Justice: George Thomas Staunton
(1781‐1859) and the European Discourses on China in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
Li Xiuqing, Nineteenth-Century Western Perspectives on Chinese Justice: An
Analysis of The Chinese Repository (1832-1851) and The China Review
(1872-1901)
Zhang Lihong and Dong Neng, The Great Qing Code in Comparative
and Historical Perspective
Marina Timoteo, Of Old and New Codes: Chinese Law in the Mirror
of Western Laws
Giulia Iannuzzi, The Cruel Imagination: Oriental Tortures from a Future
Past in Albert Robida’s Illustrations for La Guerre infernale (1908
Il tema dell’ascesa e della decadenza in alcuni osservatori europei dell’impero ottomano tra ’600 e ’700
No full textrec. a B. Bailyn, G. S. Wood, Le origini degli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987
No full textrecensione di B. Bailyn, G. S. Wood, Le origini degli Stati Uniti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 198
"A Founder of Anthropology"; "Gettò le basi dell'antropologia"
No full textThis short article introduces the figure of José de Acosta, a Jesuit priest who wrote some of the most important 16th century works on America and the American indios, within the context of the cultural challenges deriving from the Spanish conquest of the New Worl
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron, Considérations philosophiques, historiques et géographiques sur les deux mondes (1780-1804), edizione, introduzione e note di Guido Abbattista
No full textThe business of Paternoster Row: towards a publishing history of the «Universal History»
No full textrec. a J. Marshall, East India Fortunes: the British in Bengal in the XIIIth Century, Oxford, 1976
No full textrec. a J. Marshall, East India Fortunes: the British in Bengal in the XIIIth Century, Oxford, 1976, in «Il Pensiero Politico», XI, 1978, n° 2, pp. 287-8
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