Medieval identity was localized rather than European or continental

Evidence

Before the creation of the nation-state, identity was shaped by ethnic status and a powerful sense of place. The recent scholarship on “medieval nationalisms,” much of which are situated around Benedict Anderson’s 1996 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, does not suggest that medieval identities constituted some kind of pre-modern statehood. Ethnogenesis, the formation of identity according to one’s understanding of his or her origins, is a more apt descriptor for what went on in the Middle Ages. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 86 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civilizational identity is fluid, not fixed or walled off — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 232; Medieval identity formed through ethnogenesis rather than national statehood — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 86; Printing emphasized vernacular languages and divided the European intellectual mind — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804 (+2 more)

Related

• Medieval identity formed through ethnogenesis rather than national statehood (similarity 0.93)
• Medieval Europeans had no European identity, only local one (similarity 0.88)
• European national identities were built on Germanic origin myths derived from Tacitus (similarity 0.87)
• Civilizational identity is fluid, not fixed or walled off (similarity 0.83)
• Religion, not nationality, anchored identity for Muslims and medieval Christians (similarity 0.82)
• European nation-state influence pushed Ottoman minorities toward national identity models (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural identity is always hybrid yet anchored in specific historical formations (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christians conceived of religious identity as a changeable status akin to nationality. (similarity 0.80)
• Middle Eastern national identity derives from religious communality rather than ethnicity (similarity 0.80)
• Pre-national social identity was relational, not categorical. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval knighthood fused individual authenticity with cosmopolitanism. (similarity 0.80)
• Medieval Christian identity defined itself as normative humanity with all else monstrous (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.79)
• Subnational cultural identities have risen since the 1960s to challenge the nation (similarity 0.79)
• The Persian term for nation originally designated a religious community. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Medieval identity formed through ethnogenesis rather than national statehood #corroborates (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 86