Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley

'Contributors to this volume have uncovered several important aspects of the increasingly intimate relationship between political information, its diffusion through media and the reading public.' - Massimiliano Demata, University of Bari, Italy'I certainly learned much from the collection, and the inclusion of pieces on Scandinavia, Italy and the Hadsburg Netherlands is especially welcome, as there are so few English-language studies of these regions in the Seventeeth century...Drawing upon this volume, English-speaking university tutors will now find it possible to lead seminars on early modern news in genuinely comparative pan-European way.' - Mark S. R. Jenner, University of York

• General introduction Brendan DooleyPart I. The English Model Introduction Sabrina BaronEyes, ears, news and plays Stuart ShermanManuscript news/printed news: the two faces of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England Sabrina BaronNews and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England Michael MendleNews, history and the construction of the present in early modern England Daniel WoolfPart II. The Continent Introduction Brendan DooleyThe origins of the German press Thomas SchröderNewspapers in the Netherlands Otto LankhorstInstruments of political information in France Jean-Pierre VittuPolicy and publishing in the Habsburg Netherlands Paul ArblasterPolitics and the press in Spain Henry EttinghausenThe war, the news, and the curious: Italian military gazettes during the holy league Mario InfeliseThe politics of information in seventeenth-century Scandinavia Paul ReisPart III. Pan European Trajectories News and doubt in early modern culture. Or, are we having a public sphere yet? Brendan Dooley

Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley

'Contributors to this volume have uncovered several important aspects of the increasingly intimate relationship between political information, its diffusion through media and the reading public.' - Massimiliano Demata, University of Bari, Italy'I certainly learned much from the collection, and the inclusion of pieces on Scandinavia, Italy and the Hadsburg Netherlands is especially welcome, as there are so few English-language studies of these regions in the Seventeeth century...Drawing upon this volume, English-speaking university tutors will now find it possible to lead seminars on early modern news in genuinely comparative pan-European way.' - Mark S. R. Jenner, University of York

• General introduction Brendan DooleyPart I. The English Model Introduction Sabrina BaronEyes, ears, news and plays Stuart ShermanManuscript news/printed news: the two faces of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England Sabrina BaronNews and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England Michael MendleNews, history and the construction of the present in early modern England Daniel WoolfPart II. The Continent Introduction Brendan DooleyThe origins of the German press Thomas SchröderNewspapers in the Netherlands Otto LankhorstInstruments of political information in France Jean-Pierre VittuPolicy and publishing in the Habsburg Netherlands Paul ArblasterPolitics and the press in Spain Henry EttinghausenThe war, the news, and the curious: Italian military gazettes during the holy league Mario InfeliseThe politics of information in seventeenth-century Scandinavia Paul ReisPart III. Pan European Trajectories News and doubt in early modern culture. Or, are we having a public sphere yet? Brendan Dooley

Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley

'Contributors to this volume have uncovered several important aspects of the increasingly intimate relationship between political information, its diffusion through media and the reading public.' - Massimiliano Demata, University of Bari, Italy'I certainly learned much from the collection, and the inclusion of pieces on Scandinavia, Italy and the Hadsburg Netherlands is especially welcome, as there are so few English-language studies of these regions in the Seventeeth century...Drawing upon this volume, English-speaking university tutors will now find it possible to lead seminars on early modern news in genuinely comparative pan-European way.' - Mark S. R. Jenner, University of York

• General introduction Brendan DooleyPart I. The English Model Introduction Sabrina BaronEyes, ears, news and plays Stuart ShermanManuscript news/printed news: the two faces of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England Sabrina BaronNews and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England Michael MendleNews, history and the construction of the present in early modern England Daniel WoolfPart II. The Continent Introduction Brendan DooleyThe origins of the German press Thomas SchröderNewspapers in the Netherlands Otto LankhorstInstruments of political information in France Jean-Pierre VittuPolicy and publishing in the Habsburg Netherlands Paul ArblasterPolitics and the press in Spain Henry EttinghausenThe war, the news, and the curious: Italian military gazettes during the holy league Mario InfeliseThe politics of information in seventeenth-century Scandinavia Paul ReisPart III. Pan European Trajectories News and doubt in early modern culture. Or, are we having a public sphere yet? Brendan Dooley