Mogens Pelt receives FKK/DFF grant

Mogens Pelt receives FKK/DFF grant for the project “The Greek Revolution and European Republicanism, 1815-1830. Ideas of Nation, People and Citizenship in the Making of the Constitutional State”

This project will investigate the republican innovation between early modern history, and the modern period after the French Revolution. We will focus on the catalytic effect of the Greek Revolution of 1821, how underground currents of republicanism were gradually reconfigured and on the ways in which republicanism resumed the role as a driving motor in political reforms and modern state making in Europe. Our aim to revise the common understanding of the period of 1815-1830 as ‘The Restauration’ - a return to old regime monarchies. Instead we intend to demonstrated that the period was “the bridge that closed the gap” between early modern history and the modern period. It is our hypothesis that the Greek Revolution reinvigorated republicanism as a political force; that its capacity as the first successful national revolution after the demise of Napoleon’s Empire spurred the movements that led European states to constitutionalism, democracy, and parliamentarism.