This is a collective book where historians, sociologists, linguistics and scientists offer a diachronic and interdisciplinary approach to the reasons that allow to get social cohesion throughout the creation of identities and its adaptation, so: identities on the move.

Flocel Sabaté is professor in Medieval History and head of the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). He served as invited professor in universities such as Paris-1, Poitiers, ENS-Lettres et Sciences (Lyon), Universidad Nacional de Mexico or Yale, and led international research projects from European institutions such as the European Science Foundation or Marie Curie Actions. He belongs to more than fifty boards for scientific journals and series and has written more than three hundred research works, including different books about medieval society.

Contents: Flocel Sabaté: Identities on the move – Kaspar Klavins : Le tracé de l’identité européene de l’Espagne aux Pays Baltes – Felicitas Schmieder: Travelling in the ‘Orbis Christianus’ and beyond (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Century): What makes the difference? – Lesley Twomey: Establishing Female Identity through the Virgin’s words in the ‘Vita Christi’ of «Sor Isabel de Villena» – Gérard Nahon : Les juifs à Recife 1630-1654. Un modèle évanescent? – Juan Sisinio Pérez: The construction of Spanish national identity – Paul Aubert: Spain/France: Reciprocal Images during the Restoration Period (1875-1931) – Caroline Barrera: Identities on the Move. Foreign and Colonial Students in France (19th c.-1960s) – Joaquim Capdevila/Teresa Serés/Sònia Rubió: Literature and Shows of Modern Customs in Catalan ‘Ethnotypism’ and the creation of some modern imaginary of popular catalanity – Josep Maria Figueres: Exile in Mexico and Catalan identity. Catalonia in the imaginarium of first generation exiles in Mexico (1939-2005) – Maria Carmen Figuerola: Malika Mokeddem or the Recreation of a New Mestization – Pere Solà: «In the Name of Identity: violence and the Need of Belong» by Amin Maaloof: a reflection on the notion of identity – Montserrat Roser: Questions of artistic and personal identity in the interwar poetry J. V. Foix – Joan Julià-Muné: Will Major Languages Ruin Minor Languages? English and Chinese vs. Catalan and Occitan – M. Carme Junyent: Languages, links and identities in a society on the move – Teresa Sala/Lluís Samper/Xavier Burrial: Changing rural identity. Discourses on rurality in catalan school – Roberta Maierhofer: Aging as Continuity and Change: Age as Personal and Social Transformation – Jorge Wagensberg: Individuals in front of individualities: an identities’ conflict – Hugh O’Donnell: Talking the talk? Language and Identity in the European Soup Oper – Daniel-Henri Pageaux : L’imagologie face à la question de l’identité – Thibault Courcelle : Quelle identité européene ? Sentiments d’appartenance et représentations de l’Europe en mouvement dans la construction européenne – Maria Saur: Multi-culturism of Many-colours-ism. The ‘colours’ of the Presidents Obama and Khama – Michel Wieviorka : Les mutations du racisme contemporain.