Full Description
In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and the negotiation of cruelty and justice.
Critically evaluating the traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America, and other regions. The contributors highlight the distinctions among visual cultures of violence, as well as their entanglements in networks of intensive transregional communication, early globalization, and European colonization.
Contributors: Monika Barget, David de Boer, Nóra G. Etényi, Fabian Fechner, Joana Fraga, Malte Griesse, Alain Hugon, Gleb Kazakov, Nancy Kollmann, Ya-Chen Ma, Galina Tirnanić, and Ramon Voges.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery
Malte Griesse, Monika Barget and David de Boer
Part 1: Visual Markers of Legitimacy
1 To Visualize or Not to Visualize: Commemorating the Suppression of Revolt in Early Qing China
Ya-chen Ma
2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Galina Tirnanić
3 Revolutionary Ceremonies and Visual Culture during the Neapolitan Revolt (1647-1648)
Alain Hugon
Part 2: Confessional Conflict
4 From Power Brokers to Rebels: How Frans Hogenberg Depicted the Beginning of the Dutch Revolt
Ramon Voges
5 Strategies of Transnational Identification: Images of the 1655 Massacre of the Waldensians in the Dutch Press
David de Boer
6 Image and Text as Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War, 1626
Malte Griesse
Part 3: Foreign Observation
7 The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth Century
Nóra G. Etényi and Monika Barget
8 Representing the King: The Images of João IV of Portugal (1640-1652)
Joana Fraga
9 Marking Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Images of Russia
Nancy Kollmann
10 Through Glory and Death: Stepan Razin and the 1670-1671 Cossack Rebellion in Western Early Modern Visual Culture
Gleb Kazakov
Part 4: Revolutionary Images
11 Concepts of Leadership in Early Portraits of American Revolutionaries
Monika Barget
12 Satirical Rebels? Irritating Anticipations in European Visualizations of Black American Insurgents around 1800
Fabian Fechner
Index
