TY - JOUR AU - Hausser, Christian AU - Pietschmann, Horst PY - 2014/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Empire. The concept and its problems in the historiography on the iberian empires in the Early Modern Age JF - Culture & History Digital Journal JA - Cult. Hist. Digit. J. VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Dossier DO - 10.3989/chdj.2014.002 UR - https://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/41 SP - e002 AB - The article studies the more recent historiography about the Spanish and Portuguese empires. It identifies several types of interpretations and the use of ‘empire’ as a concept in different contexts, academic traditions and epochs. In doing so, it points to the achievements made and to the gaps that still exist, especially in the context of Renaissance humanism. It is the article‘s goal to facilitate a dialogue between academics about a topic that in the last decade or so has revealed crucial for the study of Ibero-American as well as for European history. ER -