From Ghent to Aix : : how they brought the news in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550-1700 / / by Paul Arblaster.

Sixteenth-century Brussels and Antwerp in combination formed the northern linchpin of an international communication network that covered Western and Central Europe. In the seventeenth century both cities saw the rise of newspapers that compare revealingly with those produced in Germany, the Dutch R...

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Superior document:Library of the Written Word, Volume 36
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; Volume 36.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 27.
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
Notes:In English with some Dutch and French.
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Summary:Sixteenth-century Brussels and Antwerp in combination formed the northern linchpin of an international communication network that covered Western and Central Europe. In the seventeenth century both cities saw the rise of newspapers that compare revealingly with those produced in Germany, the Dutch Republic, England and France. In From Ghent to Aix, Paul Arblaster examines the services that carried the news, the types of news publicized, and the relationship of these newspapers to Baroque Europe’s other methods of public communication, from drums and trumpets, ceremonies and sermons, to almanacs, pamphlets, pasquinades and newsletters. The merchant’s need for information and the government’s desire to influence opinion together opened up a space in which a new social force would take root: the media.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:900427684X
ISSN:1874-4834 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: by Paul Arblaster.