From Ghent to Aix : how they brought the news in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550-1700 /

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Author / Creator:	Arblaster, Paul, author.
Imprint:	Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages)
Language:	English Dutch French
Series:	Library of the Written Word ; volume 36 The Handpress World ; volume 27 Library of the written word ; 36. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 27.
Subject:	Press -- Belgium -- History. Belgian newspapers -- History. Pamphlets -- Belgium -- History. Newsletters -- Belgium -- History. Communication -- Belgium -- History. Newspaper publishing -- Belgium -- History. Belgian newspapers. Communication. Newsletters. Newspaper publishing. Pamphlets. Press. Belgium -- History -- 1555-1648. Belgium -- History -- 1648-1794. Belgium. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275230

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ISBN:	9789004276840 900427684X 1306942551 9781306942553 9789004276475 9004276475
Notes:	In English with some Dutch and French. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Arblaster, Paul. From Ghent to Aix 9789004276475
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004276840.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1. Political, legal and urban contexts. Confessionalisation and reputation
The regulation of the book trade
Brussels & Antwerp
Chapter 2. Newsletters and printed news, 1585-1620. Posts and newsletters
Pamphlets and prints to 1605
Almanacs
Chapter 3. Abraham Verhoeven and his Tijdinghen, 1620-1632. Reputation in a time of crisis
Abraham Verhoeven
The legacy of Lipsius
Verhoeven's local sources
Reading the Nieuwe Tijdinghen
Frequency of publication
Editorial policy
The end of Verhoeven's career
Chapter 4. Verhoeven and the news of Europe. International news in the Nieuwe Tijdinghen
Verhoeven's colleagues and rivals
Types of news in 1623
Politics, law and government
Military news
Shipping and finance
News stories of 1623
Chapter 5. The explosion of news publishing, 1632-1648. The Habsburg Netherlands, 1632-1648
Newspapers in the Habsburg Netherlands
The Year 1644
Chapter 6. The courtly gazette : managing reputation and controlling the press, 1649-1700. Opposing Renaudot
Relations veritables and princely reputation
The Relations veritables and the news of Europe, 1649-1659
The Litany of Antwerp
A desultory struggle for control of the press, 1660-1700
Conclusion.

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