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THE DISSEMINATION OF NEWS AND THE EMERGENCE OF CONTEMPORANEITY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Proof Copy Proof Copy The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe Edited By BRENDAN DOOLEY University College, Cork Proof Copy © Brendan Dooley and the contributors 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Brendan Dooley has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Dissemination of news and the emergence of contemporaneity in early modernE urope. 1. Communication, International–History–16th century. 2. Communication, International– History–17th century. 3. Press–Europe–History–16th century. 4. Press–Europe–History– 17th century. 5. Communication–Social aspects–Europe–History–16th century. 6. Communication–Social aspects–Europe–History–17th century. I. Dooley, Brendan Maurice, 1953– 302.2’094’09031—dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The dissemination of news and the emergence of contemporaneity in early modern Europe / Brendan Dooley [editor]. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6466-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Newspaper publishing— Europe—History. 2. European newspapers—History. 3. Press—Europe—History. 4. Communication—Europe—History. I. Dooley, Brendan Maurice, 1953– PN5110.D57Proof 2010 Copy 079.4—dc22 2009040616 ISBN 9780754664666 (hbk) ISBN 9781409402138 (ebk) 1 1 2 Contents 2 3 3 4 4 5 List of Figures vii 5 6 List of Tables ix 6 7 List of Contributors xi 7 8 Preface: Brendan Dooley xiii 8 9 9 10 Introduction 1 10 11 11 12 PART 1 JOINING TIME AND SPACE: THE ORIGINS 12 13 13 14 1 Philip of Spain: The Spider’s Web of News and Information 23 14 15 Cristina Borreguero Beltrán 15 16 2 News Networks between Italy and Europe 51 16 17 17 Mario Infelise 18 18 19 3 The Early German Newspaper—A Medium of Contemporaneity 69 19 20 Johannes Weber 20 21 21 22 PART 2 TIME, MOTION AND StRUCTURE IN EARLY 22 23 MODERN COMMUNICATIONS 23 24 24 25 4 The Birth of Maria de’ Medici (26 April 1575): Hearsay, 25 26 Correspondence, and Historiographical Errors 83 26 27 Alessio Assonitis 27 28 5 Making It Present 95 28 29 29 Brendan Dooley 30 30 31 6 Contemporaneity in 1672–1679: the Paris Gazette, the London 31 32 Gazette, and the Teutsche Kriegs–Kurier (1672–1679) 115 32 33 SonjaProof Schultheiß-Heinz Copy 33 34 7 “The Blowing of the Messiah’s Trumpet:” Reports about 34 35 Sabbatai Sevi and Jewish Unrest in 1665–67 137 35 36 36 Ingrid Maier and Daniel C. Waugh 37 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 vi The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity 1 PART 3 INTER-EUROPEAN SPACES AND MOMENTS 1 2 2 3 8 Handwritten Newsletters as Interregional Information Sources 3 4 in Central and Southeastern Europe 155 4 5 Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik 5 6 9 Between the French Gazette and Dutch French Language 6 7 Newspapers 179 7 8 Charles-Henri Depezay 8 9 9 10 Antwerp and Brussels as Inter-European Spaces in 10 10 News Exchange 193 11 11 Paul Arblaster 12 12 13 11 Offices of Intelligence and Expanding Social Spaces 207 13 14 Astrid Blome 14 15 15 16 PART 4 NEW METHODS AND APPROACHES 16 17 17 18 12 Narrating Contemporaneity: Text and Structure in English News 225 18 19 Nicholas Brownlees 19 20 13 Historical Text Mining and Corpus-Based Approaches to the 20 21 Newsbooks of the Commonwealth 251 21 22 Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery and Scott Songlin Piao 22 23 23 24 Epilogue 287 24 25 25 26 Index 291 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 Proof Copy 33 34 34 35 35 36 36 37 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 1 1 2 List of Figures 2 3 3 4 4 5 0.1 Giuseppe Mitelli, ‘Agli appassionati per le guerre’ (to those passionate 5 6 about the wars), Bologna, 1690. Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio di 6 7 Bologna 4 7 8 0.2 The Creation of News Texts 12 8 9 9 10 0.3 News Stories in Transition 15 10 11 5.1 Tracing back Antwerp newspaper copies found in Florence 113 11 12 12 13 13.1 An original page from The Perfect Diurnal. for 13.1 13 14 British Museum. 255 14 15 13.2 Clustergram Output for the Matrix shown in Table 13.2 261 15 16 16 13.3 Visualization of the Clustergram in Figure 13.2 261 17 17 18 13.4 Clustergram for Major Series of Periodicals 264 18 19 19 13.5 Distribution of Minimum Similarity Scores for Candidate 20 Derived Texts 268 20 21 21 22 13.6 Crouch Summary Report for ModIntell171#2 as Candidate 22 23 Derived Text, WPostWood171 as Candidate Source Text 269 23 24 13.7 Crouch Weighted Score for ModIntell171#2 as Candidate 24 25 Derived Text, WPostWood171 as Candidate Source Text 25 26 (overall score: 0.188) 270 26 27 27 28 13.8 Crouch Alignment Table for ModIntell171#2 as Candidate 28 29 Derived Text, WPostWood171 as Candidate Source Text 271 29 30 13.9 Weighted Score Output for ModIntell171 as Candidate Derived 30 31 Text, WPost171 as Candidate Source Text 31 32 (Overall Score: 0.364) 275 32 33 33 13.10 WeightedProof Score Output for ModIntell171 Copy as Candidate Derived 34 34 Text, WPostWood171 as Candidate Source Text 35 35 (overall score: 0.872) 276 36 36 37 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 Proof Copy 1 1 2 List of Tables 2 3 3 4 4 5 1.1 Charge and data presented by Juan de Tassis. 6 July 1589, A.G.S., 5 6 C. and J.H., Leg. 257 40 6 7 1.2 The accounts of Juan de Tassis from 1595–1607. A.G.S., G.A. 3rd 7 8 época, Leg 41 8 9 9 10 12.1 Margin captions in Mercurius Britanicus (10–17 June 1644) 245 10 11 13.1 Details of the Data 254 11 12 12 13 13.2 An Example Text Comparison Matrix 260 13 14 13.3 Matrix for Major Series of Periodicals 264 14 15 15 13.4 Distribution of Scores across the Whole-Corpus Matrix 266 16 16 17 13.5 Sample Comparisons at Different Levels of Scoring 267 17 18 13.6 Sentence-by-Sentence Breakdown of Correspondences between 18 19 ModIntell171#2 and WPostWood171 272 19 20 20 21 13.7 Extract from Corpus Metadata 274 21 22 13.8 Matrix for Wood and Horton’s Newsbooks of 4 and 5 April 1654 275 22 23 23 24 13.9 Variation in the Discussion of Scottish Deaths in the Battle 24 25 against Cooper 279 25 26 13.10 Scores < 0.9 from the Matrix Column for FScoutHorton171 281 26 27 27 13.11 Scores < 0.9 from the Matrix Column for FScout173 281 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 Proof Copy 33 34 34 35 35 36 36 37 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 Proof Copy 1 1 2 List of Contributors 2 3 3 4 4 5 Paul Arblaster currently teaches at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de 5 6 la Paix, Namur, Belgium. 6 7 7 8 Alessio Assonitis is the Research Director of the Medici Archive Project in 8 9 Florence, Italy 9 10 10 11 Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik teaches Early Modern and Southeast European 11 12 History at University of Graz, Austria. 12 13 13 14 Astrid Blome is a researcher at the research institute “Deutsche Presseforschung” 14 15 and teaches in Bremen University. 15 16 16 17 Cristina Borreguero Beltrán teaches Early Modern History at the University 17 18 of Burgos, Spain. 18 19 19 20 Nicholas Brownlees teaches Modern Philology in the University of Florence, 20 21 Italy. 21 22 22 23 Charles-Henri Depezay received his doctorate from the University of Orleans, 23 24 France. 24 25 25 26 Brendan Dooley teaches Renaissance Studies in the Graduate School of Arts 26 27 and Social Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. 27 28 28 29 Andrew Hardie teaches Linguistics at Lancaster University. 29 30 30 31 Mario Infelise teaches Modern History at the University of Venice. 31 32 32 33 Tony McEneryProof teaches English Language Copy and Linguistics at Lancaster 33 34 University. 34 35 35 36 Ingrid Maier teaches Russian Language and Literature at the Uppsala University, 36 37 Sweden. 37 38 38 39 Scott Songlin Piao is a Researcher in the Computing Department at Lancaster 39 40 University. 40 xii The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity 1 Sonja Schultheiß-Heinz teaches Early Modern History at the University of 1 2 Bayreuth. 2 3 3 4 Daniel Waugh teaches history in the University of Washington, Seattle. 4 5 5 6 Johannes Weber teaches Modern German Literature at the University of 6 7 Bremen. 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 25 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 Proof Copy 33 34 34 35 35 36 36 37 37 38 38 39 39 40 40 1 1 2 Preface 2 3 3 4 Brendan Dooley 4 5 5 6 6 7 What is contemporaneity? As understood by the authors of this book, it is the 7 8 perception, shared by a number of human beings, of experiencing a particular 8 9 event at more or less the same time.