Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery

In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery and assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and the negotiation of cruelty and justice.

Critically evaluating the traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America and other regions. The contributors to this volume highlight the distinctions between visual cultures of violence, as well as their entanglements in a period of intensive transregional communication, early globalization and European colonization.