News Networks in Early Modern Europe

Joad Raymond (ed.) & Noah Moxham (ed.)

Book 47 of Library of the Written Word

Language: English

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Publisher: Brill

Published: Jul 18, 2016

Collection: Academic
Reading Ease: 68.98
Genre: Textbook
Page Count: 892
Word Count: 417105

Description:

News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational.

These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.