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This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative
and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms
of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A
petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the
early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and
participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary
petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By
evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark,
the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial
petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in
politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of
authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression
or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to
establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together
the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective
petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping
contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this
book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates
& Representation.
New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of
early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious,
intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on
precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of
print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers and flysheets,
combined with quantitative analysis and a study of texts as
material objects, Thomas Munck offers a transformed picture of
early modern political culture, and through analysis of new styles
and genres of writing he offers a fresh perspective on the intended
readership. Conflict and Enlightenment uses a resolutely
comparative approach to re-examine what was being disseminated in
print, and how. By mapping the transmission of texts across
cultural and linguistic divides, Munck reveals how far new forms of
political discourse varied depending on the particular perspectives
of authors, readers and regulatory authorities, as well as the
cultural adaptability of translators and sponsors.
This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative
and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms
of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers. A
petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the
early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and
participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary
petitioning, often to the consternation of authorities. By
evaluating petitioning practices in Scotland, England and Denmark,
the book traces the boundaries between ordinary and adversarial
petitioning and shows how non-elites could become involved in
politics through petitioning. Also observed are the responses of
authorities to participative petitions, including the suppression
or forgetting of unwelcome petitions and consequent struggles to
establish petitioning as a right rather than a privilege. Together
the chapters in this book indicate the significance of collective
petitioning in articulating early modern public opinion and shaping
contemporary ideas about opinion at large. The chapters in this
book were originally published in the journal Parliaments, Estates
& Representation.
New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of
early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious,
intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on
precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of
print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers and flysheets,
combined with quantitative analysis and a study of texts as
material objects, Thomas Munck offers a transformed picture of
early modern political culture, and through analysis of new styles
and genres of writing he offers a fresh perspective on the intended
readership. Conflict and Enlightenment uses a resolutely
comparative approach to re-examine what was being disseminated in
print, and how. By mapping the transmission of texts across
cultural and linguistic divides, Munck reveals how far new forms of
political discourse varied depending on the particular perspectives
of authors, readers and regulatory authorities, as well as the
cultural adaptability of translators and sponsors.
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