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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812941203321

Autore

Arblaster Paul

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27684-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

Library of the Written Word, , 1874-4834 ; ; Volume 36

Handpress World ; ; Volume 27

Disciplina

079/.493

Soggetti

Press - Belgium - History

Belgian newspapers - History

Pamphlets - Belgium - History

Newsletters - Belgium - History

Communication - Belgium - History

Newspaper publishing - Belgium - History

Belgium History 1555-1648

Belgium History 1648-1794

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In English with some Dutch and French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Political, Legal and Urban Contexts -- Newsletters and Printed News, 1585–1620 -- Abraham Verhoeven and His Tijdinghen, 1620–1632 -- Verhoeven and the News of Europe -- The Explosion of News Publishing, 1632–1648 -- Managing Reputation and Controlling the Press, 1649–1700 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.