The Invention Of The Eyewitness by Andrea Frisch
Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France
An intellectual history of how, in early modern France, the figure of the eyewitness became a privileged source of truth across legal, historical, and literary arenas. Drawing on accounts produced amid the Wars of Religion, it shows how testimonial practices, print circulation, and juridical reforms reshaped standards of credibility, and how narratives of violence and trauma forged new expectations for first-person authority. It maps the tensions between personal presence and institutional verification, revealing the political stakes of who gets to speak as a witness and how their words acquire force.
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