ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Pamphlets and Patrons: How courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France
PAPA will rewrite significantly the story of the emergence of modern politics, re-evaluate Ancien Régime society, and re-assess the origins of the French Revolution. To do so, it will develop a new way to look at the rise of the public sphere in the 18th century. The focus is on the study of political pamphlets: 1) the PI and his team will establish a new paradigm in the research on illegally published writings, and 2) develop a database that will open tremendous new possibilities for future research in intellectual and political history. 1) According to the dominant narrative, early modern France experienced a growth of state authority, and a decline of aristocratic power. While earlier…
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