Project G: Early Modern History
"Pamphlets, lampoons, and slogans. Dynamics of invectivity and the early modern public sphere"
Our leading hypothesis is that the history of the public sphere at the edge of the Early Modern period is not to be reconstructed without its invective modes of communication. In the age after Gutenberg, the reformation period, and the era of Confessionalization, verbal and symbolic degradations vastly encouraged social, political and religious debates. The invective mode - by various levels of communication and a plethora of media, arenas and practices - shaped the way how one wrote or talked about, against, and accompanied by others. This constituted a public sphere of a new quality.
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