TY - JOUR A1 - Miller, Nicholas T1 - Spaces of thought: transnational history, intellectual history and the enlightenment JF - Ayer : revista de historia contemporánea N2 - This article offers a theoretical overview of transnational history in relation to the history of ideas, a field that certain specialists of transnational history have singled out as a promising field of future transnational research. Recent historiographical discussions within Enlightenment studies are offered to throw light about the actual novelty that a transnational perspective would offer for the history of ideas. Rather than being an entirely new outlook, transnational types of analysis can be understood as lying at the heart of classical, universalistic Enlightened scholarship, a perspective that was challenged according to the fundamental problem of context. KW - Transnational History KW - Intellectual History KW - Enlightenment KW - Historiography Y1 - 2014 SN - 1134-2277 IS - 94 SP - 97 EP - 120 PB - Asociación de Historia Contemporánea CY - Madrid ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo T1 - Mediums of communication and the development of an European constitutional discourse at the dawn of the nineteenth century JF - Ayer : revista de historia contemporánea N2 - In this article, entangled media history is presented as an approach to combine recent methodological developments towards an international turn in intellectual history on the one hand with the social history of ideas on the other. By concentrating on press networks, publishers, and media formats the various processes of constitutionalization and nationalization in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period can be reconstructed as part of an emerging European public sphere. This is exemplified by the example of the political discourse of that time in Germany. In a first step, the international networks around the two most important German publishers, Johann Friedrich Cotta and Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, are reconstructed. In the second part, the crucial role of translations and adaptations of political articles in two decisive media formats of the political discourse, the historical-political journals and the "Conversationslexikon" is examined. And finally in a third step, the specific significance of the reception of the Spanish revolution of the "trienio liberal" for the development of a constitutional vocabulary in Germany is sketched. KW - Media History KW - Intellectual History KW - History of Political Thought KW - History of Revolutions KW - Press History KW - transformations of the public sphere Y1 - 2014 SN - 1134-2277 IS - 94 SP - 49 EP - 69 PB - Asociación de Historia Contemporánea CY - Madrid ER -