Abstract
Abstract The political geography of Europe has been in a constant state of flux over the past 500 years. The continent’s borders and frontiers have changed so frequently that a substantial (and probably rather tedious) volume would be required to provide even a crude outline of the major events. Conceptually, such a project would be extremely challenging, for the idea of ‘Europe’ and the broader notion of ‘political space’ are not universal, transcendent concepts; rather, they are complex ideas whose meanings have changed enormously over the past half-millennium. The assumption that the political map of Europe in 1500 can be regarded simply as a different version of the comparable map today is thus ilieoretically and historically absurd.
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