Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Comparative Perspective on Conceptual History - An Introduction -- Part I Theoretical And Comparative Frameworks -- Chapter 1 The Historiography of German Begriffsgeschichte and the Dutch Project of Conceptual History -- Chapter 2 Social History and Begriffsgeschichte -- Chapter 3 Speech Acts, Languages or Conceptual History? -- Chapter 4 Concept - Meaning - Discourse. Begriffsgeschichte Reconsidered -- Part II Themes And Variations -- Chapter 5 The Origin and the Meaning of the Reason of State -- Chapter 6 Conceptual History and the History of Political Thought -- Chapter 7 Conceptual History in Context: Reconstructing the Terminology of an Academic Discipline -- Chapter 8 Conceptual History, Social History and Cultural History: the Test of 'Cosmopolitism' -- Chapter 9 Conceptual History and Conceptual Transfer: the Case of 'Nation' in Revolutionary France and Germany -- Part III Concept And Image -- Chapter 10 Words, Images and All the Pope's Men. Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Synthesis of Divine Wisdom -- Chapter 11 Painted Words in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 12 Historical Semantics and Political Iconography: The Case of the Game of the French Revolution (1791/92) -- Epilogue Between Cambridge and Heidelberg. Concepts, Languages and Images in Intellectual History -- On the Contributors -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.