Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740

Dr Alejandro Coroleu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21493-4 (ISBN)

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Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent - in verse or in prose - on both the pro-Habsburg and pro-Bourbon sides. Ranging from official documents, epic, satirical and panegyric poetry to defamatory pamphlets, letters, historiographical and juridical tracts, medals and ephemeral architecture, this vast textual corpus has gone almost unnoticed.

Alejandro Coroleu provides close examination of the literary devices of these texts and shows how imitation of models and figures from classical antiquity was at the heart of the authors’ highly refined verse and prose technique. He also pays attention to the historical and social context in which the texts emerged, and connects the Latin political writing produced at the time with more popular forms of propagandistic discourse (literary or visual) which found its expression in the vernacular. This book also reveals how the learned language continued to function - even after the hostilities had come to an end in July 1715 - as an instrument of political discourse and propaganda on both sides of the dynastic feud up until the death of Emperor Charles VI in October 1740.

Alejandro Coroleu is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has written extensively on Neo-Latin literature, including the book Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (2014), co-authored the volume The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500 (2018) and published Catalan and Spanish translations of Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti.

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Praise and Blame: Legitimising the New Kings’ Old Dynasties
2. ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: mapping the Spanish conflict in Latin verse and prose (1701–1712)
3. Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession
4. Latin Propaganda Beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715-1740)

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin
Zusatzinfo	9 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-21493-0 / 1350214930
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21493-4 / 9781350214934
Zustand	Neuware