The hybriditazion is taken such as a renewal view for studying the historical evolution of society since Middle Ages to current days. Outstanding historians, sociologist, anthropologist, linguistics and literature scholars from many countries, have contributed to the present interdisciplinary work that join 23 selected texts.

Flocel Sabaté is professor in Medieval History and head of Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). He led international research projects from European institutions; participate in scientific boards in research centres in Europe and America, belong to different boards for scientific journals and series and has written many research works.

Contents: Flocel Sabaté: Hybrid Identities – Josep Fontana: Histories and Identities – Andrew Vincent: The Lineage of Hybrid Identity – Christiane Stallaert: Hybridization, Transculturation, and Translation. Europe through the Lens of Latin America – Adeline Rucquoi: Hybrid Identities: the Case of Medieval Spain – Gerhard Jaritz: Outer Appearance and the Construction of Identities – Anna Maria Oliva: (Here all the Nations have Refuge as Shared Home of the World). The Cosmopolitan Identity of Rome between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries – Maria Eugenia Cadeddu: Plurilingualism and Identity in Sardinia (XVI-XVII centuries): Some Thoughts – Agustí Alcoberro: Identities in Exile from the War of the Spanish Succession (1713-1747): Some Notes – Martine Reid: Hybridité ou les femmes en littérature – Daniel Compère: Hybrides et Surgeons : Naissance des Genres Populaires – Ndèye Anna Gaye Fall: The Rule of Osha in Cuba. A Hybrid Identity? – Joan J. Pujadas: Hybrid Identities in Contexts of Minorisation of Citizens: Thinking about the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America – Fulvia Caruso: Global Ecumene, Electroacustic Music and «Other» Music – Graciela Spector: The Role of the Significant Other in the Construction of National Identities – Ugo E. M. Fabietti: Hybrid Memories: Building the Present in Southern Pakistan – Kathryn Crameri: Hybridity and Catalonia’s Linguistic Borders: the Case of Najat El Hachmi.