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The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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 societies"in 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 development of
communications networks at the dawn of journalism, when widespread
public and private networks first emerged for the transmission of
political news. What happened in Prague quickly reached Venice, and
what happened in Naples was soon the talk of Hamburg. Gradually,
enough became known about daily affairs around Europe for people to
begin to think in terms of a 'shared present'. An analysis of
contemporaneity adds a new dimension to the study of the origins of
news and media history, as well as to the origins of a European
identity. For whilst our understanding of the circulation of
manuscript newsletters and printed reports has increased in recent
years, much less is known about the impact of this burgeoning
journalism on a pan-European scale. Each essay in this volume
explores the ways in which this international impact helped foster
a developing sense of contemporaneity that encompassed not just
single countries, but Europe as a whole. Taken together the
collection offers the first panoramic view of the way stories were
born, grew and matured during their transmission from source to
source, from country to country. The results published here suggest
that a continent-wide network, including manuscript and print, for
the transmission of stories from place to place, existed and was
effective.
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