The volume is devoted to the theme “Heterodoxies: Construction of Identities and Otherness in medieval and early modern Europe.” This has been the topic of a seminar in honor of Natalie Zemon Davis, held in Hermoupolis (Syros, Greece) on July 20-21, 1998.

The volume brings together medieval, early modern and modern historians from Greece, USA, Britain, France and Italy, and explores the question of the construction of identities in the domains of society, ethnicity, religion, cultural contacts, exchanges and representations, spanning a period starting from the 8th century and ending in the 19th century.

Articles

• Natalie Zemon Davis, “Cannibalism and Knowledge”
• Carlo Ginzburg, “Selfhood as Otherness: Constructing English Identity in the Elizabethan Age”
• Antonis Liakos, “The Transformation of Historical Writing from Syntagmatic to Paradigmatic Syntax”
• Stuart Woolf, “Knowledge of Others and Self-Perceptions of European Identity”
• Christopher Black, “Early Modern Italian Confraternities: Inclusion and Exclusion”
• Thomas Dandelet, “Constructing Spanish Identity at the Center of the Old World: The Spanish Nation in Rome, 1558-1625”
• Giovanni Ricci, “Les 'jeunes' face au Prince. Le contrôle des violences rituelles dans le Duché de Ferrare (1452-1574)”
• Henriette Asséo, “Visibilité et identité flottante: les 'Bohémiens' ou 'Egyptiens' (Tsiganes) dans la France de l'Ancien Régime”
• Christine Angelidi, “Byzantine Heterodoxy and the Search for Identities: Some Thoughts on Byzantine Iconoclasm”
• Tonia Kiousopoulou, “Identités byzantines”
• Henriette Benveniste, “Pratiques de représentation et constructions d' identité: juifs et chrétiens au XIIe siècle”
• Costas Gaganakis, “Rival Constructions of 'Frenchness' in the French Religious Wars, 1560-1590. The Reading of Pierre de l' Estoile”
• Maroula Efthymiou, “Cursing with a Message: the case of Georgios Karaiskakis in 1823”

Interview

• Hayden White, “The Ironic Poetics of late Modernity” (by Angelica Koufou & Margarita Miliori)

Reviews

• Katerina Papakonstantinou: Herald Hepner/Olga Katsiardi-Hering (eds.), Die Griechen und Europa. Auben und Innensichten im Wandel der Zeit, Wien-Köln-Weimar (Böhlau: Zur Kunde Südeuropas - II/25) 1998
• Christine Philliou: Madeline C. Zilfi (ed), Women in the Ottoman Empire: Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era. Leyden (Brill), 1997
• Antonis Anastasopoulos: Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1995
• Haris Exertzoglou: Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania. Regionalism, Nation Building and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Cornell University Press, 1995, 340p. (+i-xvii)

Bulletin

• Alexander Kitroeff, “In Memoriam: John Petropoulos (1929-1999)”
• Dimitra Labropoulou & Ourania Papadopoulou, “Two Conferences about Civil War: an ongoing debate”
• Katerina Papakonstantinou, “Second Meeting of Young Historians, in the Memory of Gunnar Hering. Vienna, 20-21 December 1999”
• Pothiti Hantzaroula, “Approaching Oral History in Greece Today: Trends and the Research Process. Athens, 29 January 1999”
• Christine Paidoussi, “2nd Conference on the Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual and Cinematographic Heritage. Athens, 27-29 September 1999”
• Manos Spyridakis, “Contemporary Views in Ideology”
• Polymeris Voglis, “Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium. Princeton University, 4-7 November 1999”
• Pelagia Marketou, “Pathways to Modern Greek History: History Books from the Post Junta Period until Today. Athens, 29 November - 8 December 1999”

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