{"id":54650,"date":"2021-11-15T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=54650"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T17:11:18","slug":"the-origins-of-national-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-origins-of-national-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"B. Anderson: The Origins of National Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did nationalism develop? What was it like to live in the pre-nationalist age?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political scientist and historian Benedict Anderson says that the ideology of &#8220;nationalism&#8221; is a fairly recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/social-constructionist-theory\/\">social construct<\/a>. Before nationalism, people would identify themselves with their occupation, or village, and political communities were ruled by dynastic sovereigns rather than governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about the origins of national consciousness, according to Benedict Anderson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Pre-Nationalist Age<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What were the origins of national consciousness? Well, the nation as a political unit is a fairly recent innovation. <strong>For most of human history, people did not think of themselves as being part of a national community, bound by historical, cultural, geographical, and linguistic ties.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson argues that the overarching identity that bound people together was religion, but beyond that, people were more likely to speak in terms of other forms of identity and community. In medieval or Early Modern Europe, for example, a person would be unlikely to say \u201cI am French\u201d or \u201cI am German,\u201d because \u201cFrance\u201d and \u201cGermany\u201d did not exist as coherent political communities. They would be more likely to identify themselves in more local terms, such as the village or manorial community to which they belonged, the language they spoke, or the trade they practiced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Medieval Nationalism&nbsp;<\/strong><br><br>There is some evidence to suggest that nationalist or proto-nationalist sentiment <em>was <\/em>actually<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/british\/middle_ages\/overview_middleages_01.shtml#seven\"> beginning to form during the Middle Ages in some European countries<\/a>. Some historians have argued that this effect was noticeably pronounced in England.&nbsp;<br><br>After military setbacks in the Crusades and France in the 13th century, the English nobility and monarchy gradually became more insular and internally focused on domestic affairs, as the ruling elites became more conscious of their essential \u201cEnglishness\u201d and began to build institutions of state that consciously reflected this understanding.&nbsp;<br><br>This could be seen in the greater cohesion of bureaucracy and centralization of the English state that began to emerge in the 13th century.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dynastic Sovereigns<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson observes that <strong>before the rise of nationalism, political communities were ruled by dynastic sovereigns\u2014in other words, a <\/strong><strong><em>person<\/em><\/strong><strong>, rather than a set of laws. <\/strong>There was no concept of a self-governing nation as it exists today\u2014a political community with clear boundaries that has an identity and interests beyond the ruler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the kingdom was merely the personal dynastic territory of the sovereign, acquired by a combination of conquest and marriage alliances. <strong>Ancient and medieval rulers governed kingdoms that had no fixed borders, no official languages, and contained a diverse and heterogeneous collection of peoples. <\/strong>Indeed, many of the most powerful families ruling over territories had national or linguistic identities that were completely different from those of the people they actually ruled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, for much of the Middle Ages, the Kingdom of England was ruled by a dynasty based in what is now France, with these monarchs of England having no knowledge of the English language spoken by their subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>This extra-national character of medieval kingship\u2014at least in Europe\u2014can be partly explained by how Christian theology informed understandings of the sovereign\u2019s relationship with his subjects. 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