| From Ghent to AIX: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550-1700 Contributor(s): Arblaster, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004276475 ISBN-13: 9789004276475 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $201.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 079 |
| LCCN: 2014013163 |
| Series: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.55 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |