Fighting with quill pens: the political libels defending the Insurrection of the Barretines (1687-1690)

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  • Héloïse Hermant Universié de Nice-Sophia Antipolis

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https://doi.org/10.7203/caplletra.57.6798

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Barretines, espace public, libelle, politique populaire, révolte, satire

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Abstract: Long seen as mere accounts of proceedings and nothing more than the vehicle of an autonomous discourse, papers have attracted renewed interest in studies of libels and political literature and their idiosyncrasies have now been realized. Based on the Revolt of the Barretines in Catalonia (1687-1690), this article aims to demonstrate how the insurgents’ political writs played a major role in the insurrection. The revolt can be fully understood only if we consider those writings as discourse and action intertwined, embedded within a dense sequence of events and shaped by specific political, social and cultural practices. These practices give the papers their legitimacy as they impose, at the same time, constraints. From this analysis, politics emerges as praxis rather than a closed and standalone discourse.

Key words: Barretines, public space, libel, political literature, revolt, satire.

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2014-10-01

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Hermant, H. (2014). Fighting with quill pens: the political libels defending the Insurrection of the Barretines (1687-1690). Caplletra. Revista Internacional De Filologia, (57), 193–214. https://doi.org/10.7203/caplletra.57.6798
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Caplletra 57 (Tardor 2014)

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