Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (IRIS), at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). He has led various research projects attending interdisciplinary approaches to social identities and has conducted many studies, especially about the European Medieval Society.

Contents: Flocel Sabaté: Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities - Joan F. Mira: A history of Europe: Identities, Languages, Nations - Josep M. Nadal: Language, Normative and Identity - John Tolan : Les juifs du roi : Conflit et coexistence dans l'Angleterre d'Henri III (1216-72) - Robert Cuellas Campodarbe : La création de l'identité dans la mémoire écrite : le cas de la ville de Balaguer au bas Moyen Âge - Luis Rojas Donat: Europe and Others. Identity and Otherness in the 16 Century America - Philippe Merlo-Morat : L'identité de Jésus (entre textes et représentations iconographique) - Magí Sunyer: Identities and Literature in Catalonia: 1858-1868 - María del Mar del Pozo: Hanging Spain on the walls: Images and building of national identity from the schools (1875-1975) - Joana Soto/Alfonso Revilla: The process of symbolic legitimacy of Francoism in the city of Lleida. A Visual Anthropology approach - Daniel Carmona/Raul Travé: The representation of a wished identity through the cultural heritage: Elche, the two World Heritage City? - Agnès Toda: The Building of the Catalan Nation in the Works of Maria Aurèlia Capmany - Cristina Stephano de Queiroz: Jamil Almansur Haddad and the paradoxes of an identity in transition - Marta Miquel-Baldellou: «Maybe you're too young to remember»: Baby Jane and the sin of acting against one's age - Emma Domínguez-Rué: Neither Miss Marple nor Miss Havisham: Stereotypes of Ageing Women and Identity in Later Life in Donna Leon's «Drawing Conclusions» - Sarah Falcus: Alternative futures: Ageing and Identity in Contemporary Women's Writing - Montserrat Palau: Gender and Nation: Conditioned Identities - Carme Molet/Olga Bernad/Dídac Mateo: Representations of childhood and education in the initial training of teacher's identities - Cristina Aliagas: Students' Facebook: the magnifying glass on the social construction of teenagers' reading identity - Núria Llevot Clavet: Processes and dynamics of building an identity for intercultural mediators - Martine Camiade: Bilingualism, multilingualism, immersion: Towards the construction of identity in Northern Catalonia - Dorte J. Andersen: Identities in conflict: Lessons from the former Yugoslavia - Sergiu Miscoiu: Why Liberalism does not Actually Oppose the Nation-State? - Daniel Henri Pageaux : Identité et interculturalité : Perspectives de recherche et réflexion depuis la littérature comparée.

This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different disciplines, discussing the imposition and acceptance of identities. The different chapters of the book, written by scholars and researchers from all over the world, analyse the conflict between attributed and chosen identities in History, Language, Literature, Sociology and Anthropology across various historical periods and geographical regions. Theoretical and practical studies are combined in order to contribute to a renewal of perspectives regarding a key issue for understanding the roots of our current society and the problems surrounding conviviality in today's world.