Joad Raymond is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on John Milton, the history of news, pamphleteering, and the book trade in early modern Britain.Noah Moxham is postdoctoral research fellow in History at the University of St Andrews. He is a historian of early modern science and communication and has published widely on the relationship between scientific institutions and publishing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

“Every news historian should first study this volume before continuing with his or her own work.” - Rosanne Baars, University of Amsterdam, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48:2 (2017), pp. 494-496

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and Tables Places and Dates Abbreviations and Other Conventions Notes on Contributors 1 News Networks in Early Modern EuropeJoad Raymond and Noah MoxhamPART 1Networks2 European Postal NetworksNikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond3 The Lexicons of Early Modern NewsPaul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in Joad Raymond5 Maps versus NetworksRuth Ahnert6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects Brendan Dooley7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean(1645–1669) Johann Petitjean8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach Javier Díaz Noci9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information NetworkNikolaus SchobesbergerPART 2Modes10 The History of a Word: Gazette Mario Infelise11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette Henry Ettinghausen12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets Massimo Petta13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News Tracey A. Sowerby14 Time in English Translations of Continental News Sara Barker15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630Helmer Helmers16 News Exchange and Social DistinctionAndré Belo17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century Nicholas Brownlees18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe Jason Peacey19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy Anton Tantner20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg Noah MoxhamPART 3Studies21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century Renate Pieper22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600 Carmen Espejo23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century Elizabeth Williamson24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625 Kirsty Rolfe25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629 Paul Arblaster26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media Joop W. Koopmans27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News EventEmilie Dosquet29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600 Nina Lamal30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg Alexandra Schäfer31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes Sheila Barker32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice Laura Carnelos33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network Carlos H. Caracciolo34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution Davide Boerio35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683 Stéphane Haffemayer36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58 Virginia Dillon37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran Chiara PalazzoIndex