The Grand Ducal Medici and the Levant
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The Medici Archive Project, vol. 7
- Pages: approx. 231 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:21 b/w, 34 col., 18 tables b/w., 4 tables col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
- € 125,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-912554-88-1
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This collection of essays approaches the history of early modern news from a unique standpoint: by analyzing the stories that made the news in Europe, in particular years across the period from 1588 to 1700, in all of the major genres, including manuscript and print, single and serial publication, open and clandestine.
BIO
Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, Ireland, where he came after employments at Harvard, Notre Dame, Jacobs University Bremen, and the Medici Archive Project, and his many publications have chiefly regarded the history of knowledge and communication, including The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture (1999) and (as editor) The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of 'Contemporaneity' in Early Modern Europe (2010)
Paola Molino is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Padua. She received her PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in 2011, with a thesis on the creation of the Imperial library in Vienna, published as a monograph in 2017 as L'Impero di carta. Storia di una biblioteca e di un bibliotecario (1575-1608).
Summary
In the early modern springtime of regular news production and consumption, what was the news? Where did it come from? Where did it go? Years of News surveys the world of early modern news, in script and print, in a variety of languages, from a unique vantage point: namely, the news productivity across Europe in a series of carefully chosen years. Contributors, applying a wide variety of innovative approaches and methodologies to original material from archives and libraries far and wide, have explored the stories and the tellers, the networks and the vectors, the effects and reactions. Diving deeply into the data without losing sight of the wider perspective, they seek to illustrate the relation between event and narration, and between narration and impact, while conveying the flavor of the times as experienced by the actors through the medium of news.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Brendan Dooley and Paola Molino
Prologue: 1588 between Divulgation and Surprise
Brendan Dooley and Paola Molino
1604: Processing News in Print in the Year before the Newspaper
Paul Arblaster
1618: From Beginning to End
Brendan Dooley
1623: Telling the News in England: Serialized Print News, Experimentation, and News Management
Nicholas Brownlees
1625, the Annus Mirabilis of the News in Spain
Carmen Espejo-Cala
1636: The Facts and the Stories
Mario Infelise
1648: A Year of Revolutions
Davide Boerio
1653: Rebellion or Revolution? European Newspapers Reporting the Swiss Peasants’ War
Andreas Würgler
1669: Mediterranean Free Ports Making the News
Giulia Delogu
1683: Political Agents, Preachers, and Signs from the Sky: The Circulation of News
Pasquale Palmieri
The 1689 News in Dutch Newspapers
Joop W. Koopmans
1700: The Deaths of Charles II of Spain: Autopsy of the Francophone Political Press in Europe
Marion Brétéché
Afterword
Index
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