The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe [Hardcover]

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 Beltr??n; 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 Schulthei?xs-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.Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away. This sensation gives meaning to the notions of 'real time' and of a 'present' that is shared within and among societiesin other words, a sensation of contemporaneity. But how were time and space conceived before modernity? When did this begin to change in Europe? To help answer such questions, this volume looks at the exchange of information and the developml£€