Patrick Geary citations

Patrick Geary, né le 26 septembre 1948, est un médiéviste américain et un professeur d'histoire médiévale occidentale à l'Institute for Advanced Study à Princeton, dans le New Jersey. Il détient également le titre de professeur émérite de l'histoire médiévale à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles. Wikipedia

✵ 26. septembre 1948

Patrick Geary: Citations en anglais

“The peoples of Europe are a work in progress and always must be… The history of the people of Europe has not ended -- it never will. Ethnogenesis is a process of the present and future as much as it is the past. No efforts of romantics, politicians, or social scientists can preserve once and for all some essential soul of a people or nation. Nor can any effort ensure that nations, ethnic groups, and communities of today will not vanish utterly in the future. The past may have set the parameters within which one can build the future, but it cannot determine what that future must be.”

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Patrick J. Geary

Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe, Princeton University Press, 2003