EUROPEAN IDENTITY (DELANTY) Historical perspective Europeanness as (Western) Christendom Constitutive Others/Outside - Role of Islam & Orthodoxy Significance of Crusades/Crusaders, Constantinople Seized (1453) 1492 (New World) – colonization & the end of Reconquista Double schism (Roman x Orthodoxy; Catholics x Protestants) Religious war, Victory of Protestantism, Peace of Westphalia (1648) European identity as set of values (cultures) CHRISTIANIZATION WAVES RELIGIONS IN EUROPE None