TY - BOOK AU - Renault,Rachel TI - (Not) Describing the Revolt: Lords and Subjects React to Disobedience in Saxony and Thuringia in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century PY - 2017///. N1 - 96 N2 - This article analyzes the way that revolt is described or passed over in silence by the two principal parties involved in it: those governing and those governed. Using the example of seventeenth-century Germany as its point of departure, it shows that not only must the status of the speaker be taken into account—the context of a statement and its recipient(s) must be, too. Depending on whether a speech is intended for the imperial public sphere or, on the contrary, is supposed to remain a local secret, revolt is not presented in the same light, and different elements are spotlighted (disobedience, violence, and collective organization) UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-septieme-siecle-2017-2-page-299?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -