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

• Published in: From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War p. 159
• Main Author: Angela Rustemeyer
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: transcript Verlag 15.03.2014
• Subjects: Allusion; Armed conflict; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Communications; Conflict; Democratic theory; Elites; Government; Government officials; Group behavior; Heads of state; Human behavior; Human societies; Kings; Literary devices; Literature; Lower class; Mass communication; Military science; Monarchism; Monarchs; Monarchy; Nobility; Nonconformity; Peasant class; Political philosophy; Political regimes; Political representation; Political science; Political systems; Propaganda; Rebellion; Social behavior; Social classes; Social interaction; Social sciences; Social stratification; Social structures; Sociology; Upper class; War conflict
• ISBN: 9783837626421; 3837626423

During the last decades, religion on the one hand, and the slow but steady move towards modern nationalism on the other hand have been considered as the most important factors in early-modern conflicts. The use conflicting parties made of transnational motives in their propaganda, mostly allusions to foreign powers taking sides with their domestic rival, should corroborate this accentuation. So should also a closer look at the seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a place of armed conflict and counter-reformation. However, an analysis of transnational motives in the contemporary representation of a seventeenth-century major rebellion in this country, led by the magnate Jerzy