Travelling Chronicles : : News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century / / edited by Siv Goril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring, Christine Watson.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word Series ; Volume 66
• TeilnehmendeR: Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril,; Goring, Paul, 1970-; Watson, Christine (Slavic literature scholar),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- Introduction / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- A Network of Networks: Spreading the News in an Expanding World of Information / Paul Goring -- Exordium / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- Truth and Trust and the Eighteenth-Century Anglophone Newspaper / William B. Warner -- Archival Limits / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- Searching for Dr. Johnson: The Digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection / Andrew Prescott -- Spreading the News within the Clerical Profession: Newspapers and the Church in the North of England, 1660-1760 / Daniel Reed -- Manuscript, Print, Word of Mouth / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- All the News that's Fit to Write: The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Newsletter / Rachael Scarborough King -- Christoff Koch (1637-1711): Sweden's Man in Moscow / Heiko Droste and Ingrid Maier -- What the Posol'skii prikaz Really Knew: Intelligencers, Secret Agents and Their Reports / Daniel C. Waugh -- Foreign Reporting / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- News of Travels, Travelling News: The Mediation of Travel and Exploration in the Gazette de France and the Journal de l'Empire / Marius Warholm Haugen -- Foreign News Reporting in Transition: James Perry and the French Constitution Ceremony / Johanne Kristiansen -- Diplomatic Channels and Chinese Whispers: Reception and Transformation of the Moscow Uprising of 1648 in Sweden and France / Malte Griesse -- Advertising / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- From Piety to Profit: The Development of Newspaper Advertising in the Dutch Golden Age / Arthur der Weduwen -- Mercury as Merchant: The Advertisement of Novels in Eighteenth-Century Provincial English Newspapers / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg -- Control / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- Establishing a State-Controlled Network for News Trading in the Swedish Baltic Provinces in the Late Seventeenth Century: Causes and Consequences / Kaarel Vanamölder -- News versus Opinion: The State, the Press, and the Northern Enlightenment / Ellen Krefting -- Endpiece / Siv Gøril Brandtzæg , Paul Goring and Christine Watson -- Was there an Enlightenment Culture of News? / Andrew Pettegree.