Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe

Professor Brendan Dooley, University College, Cork

• Contents: Preface, Brendan Dooley; Introduction; Part 1 Joining Time and Space: The Origins: Philip of Spain: the spider's web of news and information, Cristina Borreguero Beltràn; News networks between Italy and Europe, Mario Infelise; The early German newspaper - a medium of contemporaneity, Johannes Weber. Part 2 Time, Motion and Structure in Early Modern Communications: The birth of Maria de' Medici (26 April 1575): hearsay, correspondence, and historiographical errors, Alessio Assonitis; Making it present, Brendan Dooley; Contemporaneity in 1672-1679: the Paris Gazette, the London Gazette and the Teutsche Kriegs-Kurier (1672-1679), Sonja Schultheißs-Heinz; 'The blowing of the Messiah's trumpet': reports about Sabbatai Sevi and Jewish unrest in 1665-1667, Ingrid Maier and Daniel C. Waugh. Part 3 Inter-European Spaces and Moments: Handwritten newsletters as interregional information sources in Central and Southeastern Europe, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik; Between the French Gazette and the Dutch French language newspapers, Charles-Henri Depezay; Antwerp and Brussels as inter-European spaces in news exchange, Paul Arblaster; Offices of intelligence and expanding social spaces, Astrid Blome. Part 4 New Methods and Approaches: Narrating contemporaneity: text and structure in English news, Nicholas Brownlees; Historical text mining and corpus-based approaches to the newsbooks of the Commonwealth, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery and Scott Songlin Piao; Epilogue; Index.

'... Brendan Dooley is to be congratulated on overseeing this complicated and stimulating work.' Library & Information History ’The authors reveal how the dissemination of news was a collective process linking writers, translators, printers, readers, and listeners across Europe.’ Journal of Modern History ’Taken as a whole, the book is well worth attention.’ English Historical Review