This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. For victims of persecution around
the world, attracting international media attention for their
plight is often a matter of life and death. This study takes us
back to the news revolution of seventeenth-century Europe, when
people first discovered in the press a powerful new weapon to
combat religiously inspired maltreatments, executions, and
massacres. To affect and mobilize foreign audiences, confessional
minorities and their advocates faced an acute dilemma, one that we
still grapple with today: how to make people care about distant
suffering? David de Boer argues that by answering this question,
they laid the foundations of a humanitarian culture in Europe. As
consuming news became an everyday practice for many Europeans, the
Dutch Republic emerged as an international hub of printed protest
against religious violence. De Boer traces how a diverse group of
people, including Waldensians refugees, Huguenot ministers,
Savoyard office holders, and many others, all sought access to the
Dutch printing presses in their efforts to raise transnational
solidarity for their cause. By generating public outrage, calling
out rulers, and pressuring others to intervene, producers of
printed opinion could have a profound impact on international
relations. But crying out against persecution also meant navigating
a fraught and dangerous political landscape, marked by confessional
tension, volatile alliances, and incessant warfare. Opinion makers
had to think carefully about the audiences they hoped to reach
through pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers. But they also had
to reckon with the risk of reaching less sympathetic readers
outside their target groups. By examining early modern publicity
strategies, de Boer deepens our understanding of how people tried
to shake off the spectre of religious violence that had haunted
them for generations, and create more tolerant societies, governed
by the rule of law, reason, and a sense of common humanity.
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