![]() This is a topic that Anderson never took up explicitly, even though he included plenty of examples of emotions. Some of those authors have also focused on the related issue of imagined emotions in their imagined Baltic communities. The authors of the chapters in this book have shown how fruitful a topic is the ‘imagined Baltic Rim’, whether imagined by the conquering, the dominated, or the excluded. It is therefore not so odd that medievalists would find the term useful: even before Anderson, the French medievalist Georges Duby was writing about ‘l’imaginaire du féodalism’, by which he meant the imaginary yet potent categories of ‘the three orders’ of society. The Spaniards who first tried to impose conceptual order on the classes they found in pre-conquest Philippines ‘imagined’ their categories quite as much as later nationalists would conceive of their ‘imagined political community’. But right from the start, he was aware that every sort of community was imagined. When Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities he meant to illuminate nationalism. ![]()
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