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

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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. Cover Content Introduction: Representing Revolts across Boundaries in Pre-Modern Times 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) Trans-national Representations of Pretenders in 17th-Century Russian Revolts TRANSGRESSION OF BOUNDARIES AS A FEAT OF LIBERTY: EARLY MODERN ANTHROPOLOGIES OF REVOLT Political Vacuum and Interregnum in Early Modern Unrest Stenka Razin’s Rebellion: The Eyewitnesses and their Blind Spot 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 Transnational Representations of Revolt and New Modes of Communication in the mid-seventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Jerzy Lubomirski’s Rebellion against King Jan Kazimierz GOVERNMENTS STRUGGLING WITH FOREIGN REPRESENTATIONS OF INTERNAL REVOLTS “Revolts” in the Kuranty of March – July 1671 State-Arcanum and European Public Spheres: Paradigm Shifts in Muscovite Policy towards Foreign Representations of Russian Revolts 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 Early Modern Revolts as Political Crimes in the Popular Media of Illustrated Broadsheets Authors