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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213858303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

ISBN

9783839426425

3839426421

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Histoire

Classificazione

NK 1300

Disciplina

355.0218

Soggetti

Revolt

Europe

Representations

Communication

Transnational History

Arab Spring

Cultural History

Early Modern History

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most articles in this book draw on contributions to a workshop at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Bielefeld in June 2009"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Content    5 Introduction: Representing Revolts across Boundaries in Pre-Modern Times    7 Cross-Border Representations of Revolt in the Later Middle Ages: France and England During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)    37 Trans-national Representations of Pretenders in 17th-Century Russian Revolts    53 Political Vacuum and Interregnum in Early Modern Unrest    81 Stenka Razin's Rebellion: The Eyewitnesses and their Blind Spot    93 Framing The Borderland: The Image of the Ukrainian Revolt and Hetman Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi in Foreign Travel Accounts    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    159 "Revolts" in the Kuranty of March-July 1671    181



State-Arcanum and European Public Spheres: Paradigm Shifts in Muscovite Policy towards Foreign Representations of Russian Revolts    205 Quietis publicae perturbatio: Revolts in the Political and Legal Treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries    273 Early Modern Revolts as Political Crimes in the Popular Media of Illustrated Broadsheets    309 Authors    351

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»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.«

Besprochen in:http://www.perspectivia.net, 10 (2015), Andreas WürglerRenaissance Quarterly, 68/3 (2015), Julius R. RuffSixteenth Century Journal 2 (2015), Brian G.H. DitchamZeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 43/2 (2016), Johannes Arndt

Reviewed in:Sixteenth Century Journal 2 (2015), Brian G.H. Ditcham