Popular Politics

Question 1

Why should we treat our perceptions of EM politics with caution?

Answer 1

Focus on the elite due to the mass evidence focussing on them

Question 2

Which Historian is the ‘Public Sphere’ associated with?

Answer 2

Jürgen Habermas

Question 3

What is the ‘Public Sphere’?

Answer 3

A public place of discussion of governments by private individuals

Question 4

What are examples of the ‘Public Sphere’?

Answer 4

Newspapers, Coffee Houses

Question 5

Why was the ‘Public Sphere’ a place of critical thinking?

Answer 5

Not controlled by the state

Question 6

What political ideology does the ‘Public Sphere’ adhere to?

Answer 6

Marxism

Question 7

Why is the ‘Public Sphere’ theory Marxist?

Answer 7

Set up ability to overthrow governments

Question 8

What does the ‘Public Sphere’ theory on overthrowing government suggest about its presence in the EM period?

Answer 8

Before this process

Question 9

What has recent research suggested about the presence of the ‘Public Sphere’ in the EM period?

Answer 9

EM Phenomenon, print culture alongside rumour

Question 10

What has Historiography focussed on regarding EM popular politics?

Answer 10

State Institutions (Kings)
People (Laws)

Question 11

Why have historians critiqued the notion that political culture was an elite phenomenon?

Answer 11

They have found it a places lower down that have been previously ignored

Question 12

What example is there that proves political culture was not elite in nature?

Answer 12

The Elite had to acknowledge the populace, for example, England’s aggressive Protestation dealing with Catholic Spain unnerving

Question 13

What did the government believe about the public and politics?

Answer 13

Should not be concerning selves with politics,

Question 14

What were Corrants?

Answer 14

Popular 1620s news sheets from Netherlands (free press)

Question 15

What does the popularity of Corrants show?

Answer 15

That populace had access to news despite illegality

Question 16

What term was very common in the EM period?

Answer 16

‘What News?’

Question 17

When and why did censorship laws collapse?

Answer 17

1640s/50s alongside reign of Charles I

Question 18

What caused the collapse of censorship laws?

Answer 18

Explosion of printed press

Question 19

What did the explosion of the printed press create?

Answer 19

A national, informed political culture

Question 20

Who was targetted with the printed press?

Answer 20

The literate

Question 21

Was literacy a blockade to a national political culture?

Answer 21

No, papers were read aloud and had pictures

Question 22

What type of culture remained, esp. outside London?

Answer 22

Oral Culture

Question 23

Why were Statutes passed?

Answer 23

To attempt to curb public discussion

Question 24

What did Statutes prove?

Answer 24

That people were talking about Mary I, a catholic

Question 25

What example is there of rumour influencing the people?

Answer 25

Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536

Question 26

How did rumour influence the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 26

Triggered the pilgrimage, threat of baptism tax for example

Question 27

Did Wales experience rumour in the same way with its linguistic barrier?

Answer 27

No, rumour transcended the barrier through bards and political gossip

Question 28

What were libels?

Answer 28

Rhymes/poems that shaded into political ballads

Question 29

What’s an example of a libel?

Answer 29

The alleged homosexuality of the Duke of Buckingham

Question 30

When did Habermas believe the Public Sphere was created?

Answer 30

18th Century

Question 31

Was there a public sphere before the 18th Century?

Answer 31

Yes, existed in different forms and people weren’t apolitical