04330nam 2200805Ia 450 991081957200332120200520144314.01-317-31428-X1-315-65284-61-317-31429-81-281-77318-297866117731821-85196-567-X10.4324/9781315652849 (CKB)1000000000541390(EBL)360187(OCoLC)476189528(SSID)ssj0000132189(PQKBManifestationID)12018856(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132189(PQKBWorkID)10041046(PQKB)10262766(MiAaPQ)EBC2125443(MiAaPQ)EBC360187(OCoLC)958106063(Au-PeEL)EBL360187(UkCbUP)CR9781851965670(EXLCZ)99100000000054139020080123d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCredibility in Elizabethan and early Stuart military news /by David Randall1st ed.London ;Brookfield, Vt. Pickering & Chatto20081 online resource (xi, 235 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Political and popular culture in the early modern period ;no. 1Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-138-66369-7 1-85196-956-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements; Note on Style; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. From Oral News to Written News; 2. Sociable News; 3. Anonymous News; 4. Building a New Standard of News Credibility; 5. Extensive News; Conclusion; Appendix A; Notes; Works Cited; IndexElizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military news shift from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers. Randall argues that the development of written news required new standards of credibility for the information to be believable. Whereas ritual news established credibility through public performance, letters circulated sociably between private gentlemen relied on the honour of the gentle author. With the rise of anonymous pamphlets and corantos (early newspapers) at the beginning of the seventeenth century, a still-existing standard of credibility developed which was based on individuals reading multiple, anonymous texts.<br> Through examination of diaries from the period, Randall discovers that this standard quickly gained authority. This shift in epistemological authority mirrored a wider alteration in social and political power from an individual monarch first to a gentle elite and then to a newsreading public in the hundred years leading up to the British civil wars. This study is based on a close examination of hundreds of manuscript news letters, printed pamphlets and corantos, and news diaries which are in holdings in the US and the UK.Political and popular culture in the early modern period ;no. 1.English newspapersGreat BritainHistory17th centuryEnglish newspapersGreat BritainHistory16th centuryNews audiencesGreat BritainHistory17th centuryNews audiencesGreat BritainHistory16th centuryPower (Social sciences)Great BritainHistory17th centuryPower (Social sciences)Great BritainHistory16th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1714Great BritainPolitics and government1485-1603English newspapersHistoryEnglish newspapersHistoryNews audiencesHistoryNews audiencesHistoryPower (Social sciences)HistoryPower (Social sciences)History302.232094109032302.232094109032Randall David1951-609791MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819572003321Credibility in Elizabethan and early Stuart military news4202059UNINA