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News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 47
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 47
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.
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.
Joad Raymond is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on John Milton, the history of news, pamphleteering, and the book trade in early modern Britain.
Noah Moxham is postdoctoral research fellow in History at the University of St Andrews. He is a historian of early modern science and communication and has published widely on the relationship between scientific institutions and publishing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Noah Moxham is postdoctoral research fellow in History at the University of St Andrews. He is a historian of early modern science and communication and has published widely on the relationship between scientific institutions and publishing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
“Every news historian should first study this volume before continuing with his or her own work.” - Rosanne Baars,
University of Amsterdam, in:
Sixteenth Century Journal 48:2 (2017), pp. 494-496
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Places and Dates
Abbreviations and Other Conventions
Notes on Contributors
1 News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham
PART 1
Networks
2 European Postal Networks
Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond
3 The Lexicons of Early Modern News
Paul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger
4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in
Joad Raymond
5 Maps versus Networks
Ruth Ahnert
6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects
Brendan Dooley
7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean
(1645–1669)
Johann Petitjean
8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach
Javier Díaz Noci
9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information Network
Nikolaus Schobesberger
PART 2
Modes
10 The History of a Word: Gazette
Mario Infelise
11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette
Henry Ettinghausen
12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets
Massimo Petta
13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News
Tracey A. Sowerby
14 Time in English Translations of Continental News
Sara Barker
15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630
Helmer Helmers
16 News Exchange and Social Distinction
André Belo
17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century
Nicholas Brownlees
18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Jason Peacey
19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy
Anton Tantner
20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg
Noah Moxham
PART 3
Studies
21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century
Renate Pieper
22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600
Carmen Espejo
23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century
Elizabeth Williamson
24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625
Kirsty Rolfe
25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629
Paul Arblaster
26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media
Joop W. Koopmans
27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time
Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal
28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News Event
Emilie Dosquet
29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600
Nina Lamal
30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg
Alexandra Schäfer
31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes
Sheila Barker
32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice
Laura Carnelos
33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network
Carlos H. Caracciolo
34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution
Davide Boerio
35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683
Stéphane Haffemayer
36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58
Virginia Dillon
37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran
Chiara Palazzo
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Places and Dates
Abbreviations and Other Conventions
Notes on Contributors
1 News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham
PART 1
Networks
2 European Postal Networks
Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond
3 The Lexicons of Early Modern News
Paul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger
4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in
Joad Raymond
5 Maps versus Networks
Ruth Ahnert
6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects
Brendan Dooley
7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean
(1645–1669)
Johann Petitjean
8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach
Javier Díaz Noci
9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information Network
Nikolaus Schobesberger
PART 2
Modes
10 The History of a Word: Gazette
Mario Infelise
11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette
Henry Ettinghausen
12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets
Massimo Petta
13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News
Tracey A. Sowerby
14 Time in English Translations of Continental News
Sara Barker
15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630
Helmer Helmers
16 News Exchange and Social Distinction
André Belo
17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century
Nicholas Brownlees
18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Jason Peacey
19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy
Anton Tantner
20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg
Noah Moxham
PART 3
Studies
21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century
Renate Pieper
22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600
Carmen Espejo
23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century
Elizabeth Williamson
24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625
Kirsty Rolfe
25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629
Paul Arblaster
26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media
Joop W. Koopmans
27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time
Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal
28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News Event
Emilie Dosquet
29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600
Nina Lamal
30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg
Alexandra Schäfer
31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes
Sheila Barker
32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice
Laura Carnelos
33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network
Carlos H. Caracciolo
34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution
Davide Boerio
35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683
Stéphane Haffemayer
36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58
Virginia Dillon
37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran
Chiara Palazzo
Index
All interested in the histories of news, of the book, and of political culture in early modern Europe.