Contents: Joandomènec Ros: Preface – Flocel Sabaté: Catalonia among the Longstanding Regions of Europe – Flocel Sabaté: The Medieval Roots of Catalan Identity – Antoni Simon: The Centuries Ushering in Modernity: Identity, State and Nation – Antoni Simon: «Catalans and Spaniards»: Two Peoples Chosen for a Single Promised Land – Ignasi Fernández: Catholics and Catalans: Religion in Catalan Identity in the 16th and 17th Centuries – Òscar Jané: France and the Formation of Political and Social Identities in 17th Century Catalonia – Cristian Palomo: Catalan National Identity in the 18th Century: The War of the Spanish Succession and the Bourbon Regime – Jordi Casassas: The Contemporary World: A Increasingly Noticeable Distinct Identity – David Cao: Catalonia: Unique Consciousness and Collective Identity in the First Half of the 18th Century: Notes and Consideration – Giovanni C. Cattini: The Advent and Politicisation of a Unique Catalan Identity (1860-1898) – Jordi Casassas: What Made Catalonia Unique (1901-1939) – Carles Santacana: Catalan Identity in the Years of a Spanishist Dictatorship – Josep Moran/Joan Anton Rabella: The language: vehicle for transmission of Catalan Identity throughout History – Tomàs de Montagut: A Survey of the Legal History of Catalonia and its Historical Rights – Xavier Barral: Architecture, Power and Identity in Medieval Catalonia: Identity-based Challenges when Recovering and Re-creating.