“A picture is worth a thousand words”: Visual Media and the Anti-Jesuit Conspiracy Theory in the Age of Enlightenment
In the context of news reporting about anti-Jesuit government actions and within the media landscape of eighteenth-century Europe, anti-Jesuitism began to posit a comprehensive superconspiracy and, in doing so, interweave religious and political aspects. Visual media played a decisive role in this p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-121 |
| Further subjects: | B
superconspiracy
B Enlightenment B visual media B Jesuits B anti-Jesuitism B intermediality B news reporting |
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| Summary: | In the context of news reporting about anti-Jesuit government actions and within the media landscape of eighteenth-century Europe, anti-Jesuitism began to posit a comprehensive superconspiracy and, in doing so, interweave religious and political aspects. Visual media played a decisive role in this process. Due to their high degree of intermediality and frequent recourse to allegory, printed news images were able to bundle ongoing debates and condense complex arguments. The allegorical pictorial language of these images was a specifically baroque form of non-linear “hypertextuality” that went far beyond the linear patterns of causality normally associated with the verbal and textual cultures of the Enlightenment. The visual dimension of news reporting was a means of cross-referencing and connecting that, by defying linear logic, promoted the idea that “nothing is as it seems” and that “everything is connected.” |
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| ISSN: | 2214-1332 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jesuit studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22141332-10010008 |