Les libelles internationaux à la période moderne : étude préliminaire

The recent historiography of libels has emphasised their roles in asserting and applying the mores and values of a community, social, linguistic, moral, political. In this essay I show that some libels travelled outside of and among communities. Using a series of seventeenth-century examples, I offe...

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Main Author: Joad Raymond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2014-12-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/297
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Summary:The recent historiography of libels has emphasised their roles in asserting and applying the mores and values of a community, social, linguistic, moral, political. In this essay I show that some libels travelled outside of and among communities. Using a series of seventeenth-century examples, I offer a taxonomy of the ways in which libels could operate internationally or trans-locally.
ISSN:1634-0450