From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War: Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2014

From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War

Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations

Edited by: Malte Griesse
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection

Volume 56 in the series Histoire

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839426425

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About this book

The Arab spring, protest movements in the EU, Russia, Turkey or elsewhere, are often labeled as twitter-revolutions. A crucial role is attributed to the new media, coverage of events abroad and ensuing mutual reactions. With the dissemination of print, revolts in early-modern times faced the challenge of a similar media-revolution. This influenced the very face of the events that could become full-fledged propaganda wars once the insurgents had won access to the printing press. But it also had an impact on revolt-narratives. Governments severely persecuted dissident views in such delicate issues as revolts. Observers abroad had no such divided loyalties and were freer to reflect upon the events. Therefore, the book focuses mainly on representations of revolts across borders.

Author / Editor information

Malte Griesse leads an interdisciplinary research group at Constance University on »Early-Modern Revolts as Communicative Events«. He holds a research fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. With his group he runs a research blog for debate on issues related to early modern revolts and their representations (revolt.hypotheses.org).

Reviews

»Scholars of the early modern period will find this fresh approach to the revolts of this era of considerable interest.«
Julius R. Ruff, Renaissance Quarterly, 68/3 (2015)

»Der Sammelband [bietet] besonders durch die Konzentration auf weniger bekannte Revolten im frühneuzeitlichen Osteuropa sowie seine interdisziplinären Forschungsansätze neue Perspektiven auf die bisherige Analyse vormoderner Protestbewegungen und ihrer Repräsentationen.«
Nina Schweisthal, sehepunkte, 11 (2014)

Besprochen in:

http://www.perspectivia.net, 10 (2015), Andreas Würgler
Renaissance Quarterly, 68/3 (2015), Julius R. Ruff
Sixteenth Century Journal 2 (2015), Brian G.H. Ditcham
Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 43/2 (2016), Johannes Arndt

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction: Representing Revolts across Boundaries in Pre-Modern Times Open Access Download PDF	7
Representing Revolt before the Advent of the Gutenberg-Galaxy: A Question of Dissemination?
Cross-Border Representations of Revolt in the Later Middle Ages: France and England During the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) Helmut Hinck and Bettina Bommersbach Open Access Download PDF	37
Trans-national Representations of Pretenders in 17^th-Century Russian Revolts Maureen Perrie Open Access Download PDF	53
Transgression of Boundaries as a Feat of Liberty: Early Modern Anthropologies of Revolt
Political Vacuum and Interregnum in Early Modern Unrest Yves-Marie Bercé Open Access Download PDF	81
Stenka Razin’s Rebellion: The Eyewitnesses and their Blind Spot Andre Berelowitch Open Access Download PDF	93
Insurgents as Diplomates: Cross-border Alliances and their Representations
Framing The Borderland: The Image of the Ukrainian Revolt and Hetman Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi in Foreign Travel Accounts Frank Sysyn Open Access Download PDF	127
Transnational Representations of Revolt and New Modes of Communication in the midseventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Jerzy Lubomirski’s Rebellion against King Jan Kazimierz Angela Rustemeyer Open Access Download PDF	159
Governments Struggling with Foreign Representations of Internal Revolts
“Revolts” in the Kuranty of March–July 1671 Ingrid Maier and Stepan Shamin Open Access Download PDF	181
State-Arcanum and European Public Spheres: Paradigm Shifts in Muscovite Policy towards Foreign Representations of Russian Revolts Malte Griesse Open Access Download PDF	205
Revolts as Political Crime: Legal Concepts and Public Representation
Quietis publicae perturbatio: Revolts in the Political and Legal Treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries Fabrizio Dal Vera Open Access Download PDF	273
Early Modern Revolts as Political Crimes in the Popular Media of Illustrated Broadsheets Karl Härter Open Access Download PDF	309
Authors Open Access Download PDF	351

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 354
Keywords: Europe; Representations; Communication; Transnational History; Arab Spring; Cultural History; Early Modern History; History

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839426425