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100	1	0	_aFargette, Séverine _eauthor
245	0	0	_aRumors, Propaganda, and Public Opinion during the Civil War (1407–“1420)
260			_c2007.
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520			_aBetween 1407 and 1420, the Armagnacs and Burgundians fought a ruthless war and their men at arms devastated the Ile-de-France. Yet, the abominable crimes usually attributed to them (arson, pillage, murder, rape, etc.) were mostly unrecorded. This discrepancy, a major historical problem, can be understood by the spread of rumors and the immoderate use of propaganda. Indeed on both sides it proved essential to manipulate public opinion through manifestos, ballads, or sermons, just as it became necessary to keep individuals under observation and control, for every stranger could be a spy or a propagandist. Rumor fed public fears, with village communities taking the initiative and defending themselves against the misdeeds of men at arms. Banditry, far from being the actions of ruffians on the prowl, was in fact presented, in judicial sources, as an act of self-defense.
690			_apropaganda
690			_arumor
690			_abanditry
690			_apublic opinion
690			_acivil war Armagnacs
690			_aBurgundians
786	0		_nLe Moyen Age | Volume CXIII | 2 | 2007-08-23 | p. 309-334 | 0027-2841
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-moyen-age-2007-2-page-309?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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