Between Greece and Spain: Identity, Foreigners, and «Nation».: An Interpretation of the Other
The ancient Greeks and the Spanish of the early modern period share what in sociology is called the in-group and out-group sides: the distinction between «us» and «others.» The «civilized» and the barbarian. From a multidisciplinary approach that modulates between the history of thought, the history...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2025 |
| Country: | Perú |
| Institution: | UCSP |
| Repository: | Allpanchis |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/1788 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1788 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Greeks Spaniards foreigners identity barbarians griegos españoles extranjeros identidad bárbaros Siglo XV Siglo XVI |
| Summary: | The ancient Greeks and the Spanish of the early modern period share what in sociology is called the in-group and out-group sides: the distinction between «us» and «others.» The «civilized» and the barbarian. From a multidisciplinary approach that modulates between the history of thought, the history of institutions, political philosophy, and through the use of historical and literary sources, the identities, foreignness, and being of the Hellenes and the Hispanics are analyzed through a qualitative proposal. A discursive framework with descriptive scope is presented in which the hypothesis is articulated as follows: some principles related to religious beliefs and the idea of «blood» or lineage were common to Greeks and Iberians of the 15th and 16th centuries; the aim is to describe concepts that remained and were amplified according to the era and the thinkers. |
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