Medieval propaganda techniques closely anticipated modern public-relations methods

Evidence

The methods and techniques of the medieval propagandist are surprisingly similar to those of his modern successors. His main purposes are to promote the cause of his client, and to denigrate possible rivals or opponents. Propagandists for opposing causes may handle the same themes and facts in very different ways, resorting to such familiar devices as selection, suppression, shading, and, when feasible, downright invention. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 486

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the modern-media analysis in ‘The AI Con’ and communications theory readings: selection, suppression, and shading as the canonical toolkit.