Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery

Malte Griesse, Ph.D. (2008, EHESS Paris), habilitation (2016, University of Konstanz) is visiting professor at LMU Munich. His main fields of research are Soviet history, early modern revolts in Europe, and autobiographical writing during the Sattelzeit (“Saddle Period”). Monika Barget, Ph.D. (2018, University of Konstanz) is postdoctoral researcher at IEG Mainz. Her current research interests include mobility and borders in the early modern period, geo-humanities, public humanities, and the digital analysis of media networks.David de Boer, Ph.D. (2019, University of Konstanz and Leiden University) is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. His most recent article is “Between Remembrance and Oblivion. Negotiating Civic Identity after the Sacks of Mechelen (1572, 1580),” Sixteenth Century Journal (2020).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern ImageryMalte Griesse, Monika Barget and David de BoerPart 1: Visual Markers of Legitimacy1 To Visualize or Not to Visualize: Commemorating the Suppression of Revolt in Early Qing ChinaYa-chen Ma2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical ReproductionGalina Tirnanić3 Revolutionary Ceremonies and Visual Culture during the Neapolitan Revolt (1647–1648)Alain HugonPart 2: Confessional Conflict4 From Power Brokers to Rebels: How Frans Hogenberg Depicted the Beginning of the Dutch RevoltRamon Voges5 Strategies of Transnational Identification: Images of the 1655 Massacre of the Waldensians in the Dutch PressDavid de Boer6 Image and Text as Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War, 1626Malte GriessePart 3: Foreign Observation7 The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth CenturyNóra G. Etényi and Monika Barget8 Representing the King: The Images of João IV of Portugal (1640–1652)Joana Fraga9 Marking Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Images of RussiaNancy Kollmann10 Through Glory and Death: Stepan Razin and the 1670–1671 Cossack Rebellion in Western Early Modern Visual CultureGleb KazakovPart 4: Revolutionary Images11 Concepts of Leadership in Early Portraits of American RevolutionariesMonika Barget12 Satirical Rebels? Irritating Anticipations in European Visualizations of Black American Insurgents around 1800Fabian Fechner Index