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Record Nr.

UNISA996308842603316

Titolo

From mutual observation to propaganda war : premodern revolts in their transnational representations / / Malte Griesse, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-2642-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Histoire ; ; Volume 56

Disciplina

355.0218

Soggetti

Insurgency

Mass media and war

War in mass media

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.

»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