The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution

For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the press as a weapon to combat religious persecution. To mobilize foreign audience...

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description For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the press as a weapon to combat religious persecution. To mobilize foreign audiences, they faced an acute dilemma: how to make people care about distant suffering? This study argues that by answering this question, they laid the foundations of a humanitarian culture in Europe. The book reveals how, as consuming news became an everyday practice for many Europeans, the Dutch Republic emerged as an international hub of printed protest against religious violence. It traces how a diverse group of people, including Waldensian refugees, Huguenot ministers, Savoyard officeholders, and many others, all sought access to the Dutch printing presses to raise transnational solidarity for their cause. By examining their publicity strategies, this study deepens our understanding of how people tried to confront the specter of religious violence that had haunted them for generations.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1313392025-06-03T05:08:24Z The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution de Boer, David humanitarianism, religious persecution, Dutch Republic, religious violence, pamphlet, religious conflict, public sphere, refugee, compassion, Protestantism For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the press as a weapon to combat religious persecution. To mobilize foreign audiences, they faced an acute dilemma: how to make people care about distant suffering? This study argues that by answering this question, they laid the foundations of a humanitarian culture in Europe. The book reveals how, as consuming news became an everyday practice for many Europeans, the Dutch Republic emerged as an international hub of printed protest against religious violence. It traces how a diverse group of people, including Waldensian refugees, Huguenot ministers, Savoyard officeholders, and many others, all sought access to the Dutch printing presses to raise transnational solidarity for their cause. By examining their publicity strategies, this study deepens our understanding of how people tried to confront the specter of religious violence that had haunted them for generations. 2023-12-05T04:03:15Z 2023-12-05T04:03:15Z 2023-12-04T08:55:56Z 2023 book OCN: 1395076712 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85759 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131339 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85759/1/9780198876809.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85759/1/9780198876809.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85759/1/9780198876809.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85759/1/9780198876809.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198876809.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198876809.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Universiteit van Amsterdam da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 225 Oxford 016.Vici.185.020 open access
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