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The Popish Plot: A Case Study in the Political History of Fear

Collins, Jeffrey

The Journal of modern history, 2023-03, Vol.95 (1), p.1-37 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

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  • Título:
    The Popish Plot: A Case Study in the Political History of Fear
  • Autor: Collins, Jeffrey
  • Assuntos: Assassinations & assassination attempts ; Case studies ; Catholicism ; Catholics ; Cold War ; Conspiracy ; Elites ; European history ; Fear & phobias ; Fiction ; Fictitious ; Interwar period ; Political history ; Politics ; Religion & politics ; Revolutions
  • É parte de: The Journal of modern history, 2023-03, Vol.95 (1), p.1-37
  • Descrição: This article places the Popish Plot of 1678–81 into two fresh historiographical frames: the history of emotions, and the history of early modern conspiracy theorizing. It argues that conventional readings of the plot uncritically echo contemporary sources, many of which presented it as a conspiracy of elite insiders. These interpretations rely on implicit, misleading accounts of the emotional history of the plot, according to which the fear or panic generated by the event was confined to a disempowered populace, which was in turn manipulated by dispassionate power holders. The article argues that the rhetoric surrounding the plot found in the surviving archive reflected the “emotional regime” of the era, but that this performative rhetoric failed to capture the actual dynamics of the Popish Plot and obscures our understanding of the popular agency that propelled it. The disjunction between the emotional norms of the era and the lived experience of the plot encouraged rampant conspiracy theorizing. This case study is intended to prompt some broader rethinking of the roles that conspiracy theorizing, and the presumptions about emotions and agency that inform conspiracy theories, play in moments of political crisis both past and current.
  • Editor: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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