Project description
A new chapter in French Revolution studies
The French Revolution is supposedly the result of long-term changes leading to the rise of the public sphere. The ERC-funded PAPA project will question major theses of 17th and 18th century studies supporting this narrative. It will re-evaluate Ancien Régime society and reassess the origins of the French Revolution. Specifically, the project will establish a new paradigm in the research on illegally published writings and develop a database that will open tremendous new possibilities for future research in intellectual and political history. The PAPA research team will create the first database devoted to Ancien Régime pamphlets, which will be analysed. The research into these illegally published writings will provide new avenues for future investigations in intellectual and political history
Objective
PAPA will rewrite significantly the story of the emergence of modern politics, re-evaluate Ancien Rgime 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 royal authority was allegedly sacral, the Enlightenment era is presented as an epoch that witnessed the rise of the bourgeoisie and gave birth to a new criticism of both aristocracy and absolutism. The French Revolution is supposedly the result of these long-term processual changes. PAPA will question major theses of 17th- and 18th-century studies supporting this narrative, and develop new venues of research in these fields. PAPAs main hypotheses are that a) courtiers shaped the 18th-century public sphere in a crucial way, b) 18th-century society and politics show more continuities than ruptures to the 17th century, and c) the French Revolution had at its inception much more in common with 17th-century princely uprisings than has been hitherto recognised.
2) The PAPA research team will create the first database devoted to Ancien Rgime pamphlets. As several humanities and social sciences have a keen interest in these sources, the significance of PAPA goes largely beyond historical studies. The PAPA database will enable ongoing analyses of the content of these sources. This will greatly facilitate future research on Ancien Rgime France and make scholarly results accessible within and outside academia.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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