By Heikki Mikkeli
Heikki Mikkeli charts the historical past of the assumption of Europe and eu id. the 1st half introduces a few of the makes an attempt to unify Europe from antiquity to the eu Union. within the moment half the connection of Europe with the USA and Russia is taken into account, in addition to the ambivalent function of important Europe. the opportunity of a typical eu id can be mentioned; a topic which could impact the methods ecu background is written sooner or later.
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The question of peace in Europe became more pressing as certain royal families amassed more and more power. A petition addressed to the King of France in 1584 stated in no uncertain terms that whether the Christian world was at war or peace depended on whether a balance of power prevailed between the two strongest royal households, those of 44 Europe as an Idea France and Spain. The English historian William Camden wrote at the end of the sixteenth century that France and Spain were the two sides of the European peace balance, and that England could tip the balance either way.
Lexically, ‘Europe’ carried no emotional charges, whereas ‘Christendom’ did. Geographers did indeed continue to use the term in its previous meaning, but medieval geographers were few and far between (van den Brincken, 1973). All the medieval encyclopedists from Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede right up to Albertus Magnus and Vincent of Beauvais gave a traditional account of the world divided into three parts: Asia, Africa and Europe. As we have seen before, this tripartite division merged without any problem with the Biblical story of Noah’s three sons.
The concept of ‘Europe’ thus became associated in political discourse more and more clearly with the balance-of-power policy, religious tolerance and expanding trade of the sovereign states (Schmidt, 1966). All the plans so far discussed had been produced by Frenchmen. The next major peace plans in the seventeenth century flowed from the pens of English Quakers. These Quakers were a radical, pacifist group arising in England in around the 1650s and aiming at greater political tolerance and political equilibrium.