Selling and Rejecting Politics in Early Modern EuropeMartin Gosman, Joop W. Koopmans Peeters Publishers, 2007 - 197 pagine Power in the early modern age, as in the present age, is an important subject for debate. What is power? Who has it or should have it? What are the underlying reasons for this? And especially, how is this power exercised, legitimised, and accepted? The issue of power in Europe in the early modern age is all the more significant because the demarcation line between the worldly and the religious component of power is not always clearly drawn. The fact is that power can only exist in a structured context where there is a measure of approval and consensus on the way that power is constituted and exercised. It is actually about the relationship between those who have or crave power and those who find themselves in subordinate positions. Many means of persuasion are deployed in propaganda mechanisms to underscore the rightness or superiority of this relationship. The reverse side of this phenomenon is equally important: the extent to which criticism is being voiced and other opinions are being proclaimed is at least as relevant to an evaluation of the relationship between both groups, i.e. rulers and subordinates. In societies where pomp and circumstance bear the brunt of the persuasive process - since not everyone can read or write - visual elements are crucial: painting, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, court parties and ceremonies play a major role, as do all the products issued by the printing presses: tracts and pamphlets, illustrated or unillustrated. The essays in this volume deal not so much with theories of power but rather with the ways that rulers attempt to motivate the legitimation of their power and convey their own superiority, be it genuine or spurious. They focus on the persuasive production emanating from governments as well as on the reactions of other parties, which show both confirmative and contesting tendencies. |
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vi | 7 |
Official Statements and Propaganda in the Estates General | 25 |
Intended Effects and Undesirable Responses Political | 47 |
Information or Indoctrination? News Prints of the Military | 59 |
The Balet de la Reyne 1609 and the Politics of Vertu | 71 |
All Art is a Piece of Statecraft The Political Use of Classical | 93 |
On Cocks and Frogs Fables and Pamphlets around 1672 | 111 |
Political Martyrs and Popular Prints in The Netherlands in 1672 | 119 |
Politics in Title Prints Examples from the Dutch News Book | 135 |
Theatre as Politics by another Name French Theatre | 151 |
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