Videos by Maurizio Isabella
Chair: Sergio Luzzatto
Speaker: Maurizio isabella
Discussants: Konstantina Zanou
Gabriel Paquette
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This talk addresses the question of what revolutions were by looking at the way in which they wer... more This talk addresses the question of what revolutions were by looking at the way in which they were conceived, understood and performed by historical actors in the early 19th century. It does so by discussing a wave of uprisings demanding the introduction of constitutions that broke out in Portugal, Spain, Piedmont, Naples and the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s. By so doing, it points to an alternative chronology and geography of the European age of revolutions that questions existing historical narratives, based on 1789, 1830 and 1848 and centered around France.
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, Princeton University Press, 2023
Chapter 4 of "Mediterranean Diasporas"
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Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ide... more Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ideas within and from the Mediterranean basin. In bringing together leading historians of ideas and nationalism working on Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa for the first time, it builds bridges across national historiographies, raises a number of comparative questions and unveils unexplored intellectual connections and ideological formulations. As the book shows, in the so-called age of nationalism, the idea of the nation state was by no means dominant, as displaced intellectuals and migrant communities developed notions of double national affiliations. By adopting the Mediterranean as a framework of analysis, the contributors offer a fresh contribution to the growing field of transnational and global intellectual history, revising the genealogy of 19th-century nationalism, and reveal new perspectives on the intellectual dynamics of the age of revolutions. This book puts the Mediterranean space back into a broader transnational context, and as such will be of interest to anyone studying or researching the region, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of nationalism and the global circulation of ideas.
See http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mediterranean-diasporas-9781472576668/
Projects by Maurizio Isabella
Papers by Maurizio Isabella
The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought, D. Moggach and G. Stedman Jones (eds.),, 2018
Re-imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860, Joanna Innes and Mark Philp (eds.),, 2018
Historians of liberalism have tended to ignore or underplay the contribution of southern Europe. ... more Historians of liberalism have tended to ignore or underplay the contribution of southern Europe. However, in the 1820s this part of the world was at the forefront of the struggle
for liberal values. This essay explores the relationship between constitutional culture and religion during the liberal revolutionary wave that affected Portugal, Spain, the
Italian peninsula and Greece, by examining parliamentary debates, the revolutionary press, literature targeting the masses, religious sermons and exile writings. It argues
that rather than rejecting religion, liberals strove to find an accommodation between their values and revealed truth—they were convinced that no society could survive
without religious morality. In this way, they developed a variety of religious attitudes that ranged from deism to forms of crypto-Protestantism without abandoning their
established religions. At the same time, although they defended individual rights and freedom of expression against the opposition of the churches, and argued for reformed
and enlightened forms of religiosity, most of them considered the religious uniformity of their societies advantageous and even opposed religious toleration.
History of European Ideas, Jan 2013
The paper discusses the political thought of Cesare Balbo (1789–1853), a leading Risorgimento mod... more The paper discusses the political thought of Cesare Balbo (1789–1853), a leading Risorgimento moderate liberal and politician, in the context of the efforts by the Piedmontese political elite to support and legitimise the constitutional regime introduced by King Charles Albert in 1848. Revising current interpretations of Risorgimento moderate liberalism as backward and provincial, it seeks to locate the political thought of Balbo and his colleagues at the heart of contemporary European, and particularly French, debates regarding liberty and aristocracy. In particular, it argues that the views of Balbo and more broadly Piedmontese moderate liberals on centralisation, the importance of a social elite to defend freedom, and equalisation, were conversant with the ideas of Guizot, Chateaubriand, Burke and Tocqueville. Their harsh condemnation of republican virtue, on the other hand, rendered their liberalism peculiar in the Italian context, where Tuscan moderate liberals continued to resort to the language of civic humanism after 1848 to defend their political and social model.
Alalama University Press, 2013
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Dec 2012
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Dec 2012
The article discusses the way in which liberals conceived the relationship between freedom of the... more The article discusses the way in which liberals conceived the relationship between freedom of the press, political liberty, and the Risorgimento. It argues that while all Risorgimento patriots advocated the introduction of freedom of the press, and saw it as a precondition for the success of their programmes, they also held different views on its applicability. While early liberals like Giuseppe Pecchio and Ugo Foscolo, in tune with the ideas of Benjamin Constant, were in favour of the largest possible freedom of speech, Italian moderates were less convinced of the benefits of an unchecked proliferation of political media. In line with the ideas of the French doctrinaires, Cesare Balbo, Vincenzo Gioberti, Terenzio Mamiani and Carlo Farini insisted on the pedagogical role of the press, and on the need to prevent it from becoming an instrument in the hands of democratic leaders and demagogues, one that would lead either to the proliferation of factions or to the establishment of a dictatorship of the majority.
Past and Present, Nov 2012
in Patriarca and Riall eds., The Risorgimento Revisited, Palgrave, 2012
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for liberal values. This essay explores the relationship between constitutional culture and religion during the liberal revolutionary wave that affected Portugal, Spain, the
Italian peninsula and Greece, by examining parliamentary debates, the revolutionary press, literature targeting the masses, religious sermons and exile writings. It argues
that rather than rejecting religion, liberals strove to find an accommodation between their values and revealed truth—they were convinced that no society could survive
without religious morality. In this way, they developed a variety of religious attitudes that ranged from deism to forms of crypto-Protestantism without abandoning their
established religions. At the same time, although they defended individual rights and freedom of expression against the opposition of the churches, and argued for reformed
and enlightened forms of religiosity, most of them considered the religious uniformity of their societies advantageous and even opposed religious toleration.
See http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mediterranean-diasporas-9781472576668/
for liberal values. This essay explores the relationship between constitutional culture and religion during the liberal revolutionary wave that affected Portugal, Spain, the
Italian peninsula and Greece, by examining parliamentary debates, the revolutionary press, literature targeting the masses, religious sermons and exile writings. It argues
that rather than rejecting religion, liberals strove to find an accommodation between their values and revealed truth—they were convinced that no society could survive
without religious morality. In this way, they developed a variety of religious attitudes that ranged from deism to forms of crypto-Protestantism without abandoning their
established religions. At the same time, although they defended individual rights and freedom of expression against the opposition of the churches, and argued for reformed
and enlightened forms of religiosity, most of them considered the religious uniformity of their societies advantageous and even opposed religious toleration.
Salle d'Histoire
Séminaire « L'histoire transnationale et globale. Actualités de la recherche »
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE, RUE D'ULM, PARIS
historiography and other related disciplines. Many of the recent studies however distance from Braudel’s concept of mediterranée.
They prefer promoting histories in the Mediterranean instead of histories of the Mediterranean. Is the unity of the Mediterranean of a merely fictitious character or can it still serve, at least in its less pretentious adjective form, as a useful category of historical analysis? Did the circulation of political ideas, in particular liberal ideas, which national diaspora disseminated over the long nineteenth century, substantiate a Mediterranean political unity? Are the Mediterranean islands an example for separated pluralities, or not rather for a multi-layered connectivity? Has the Mediterranean become a ‘sea of risks’? How do migrants who cross the Mediterranean, and those who depart from its rims to
Northern Europe, experience and represent the maritime space? What remains of the claims for Mediterranean unity when it comes to the EU migration politics? The participants of the workshop will address these and other related questions.
Friday , 9 April, 12 PM EDT (17 BST)
Register on Zoon at the link below
In conversation with Gabriel Paquette and Konstantina Zanou
February 24, 12.15 New York (EST) time.
Videorecording available at this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/WC_Pkdu9_umlMZ_3A13ffiK2nGHxMxD4sIxkvn6ay6Gjttegxz1xN-4TP6vVzNVR.7JkuIuGnMVLwuIAj
revolutionary sites via the Mediterranean. What are the benefits of this approach, and how does the Greek revolution look once it is put back into this Southern European space? The conversation will address this and other questions to offers new interpretations about Greece in the Age of
revolutions.
John-Paul Ghobrial, Abigail Green, Giuseppe Marcocci, and Eduardo Posada-Carbó will be in conversation with Maurizio Isabella about his new book, Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 2023)
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/roundtable-discussion-of-southern-europe-in-the-age-of-revolutions-in-conversation-with-profes