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Manuscript circulation and the invention of politics in early Stuart England
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ISBN: 9781107120723 9781316343111 9781107543737 1107543738 1107120721 1316566587 1316566242 1316566927 1316568288 1316567265 1316568628 1316343111 1316564207 9781316568620 9781316567265 Year: 2016 Volume: *97 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In the decades before the Civil War, English readers confronted an extensive and influential pamphlet literature. This literature addressed contemporary events in scathingly critical terms, was produced in enormous quantities and was devoured by the curious. Despite widespread contemporary interest and an enormous number of surviving copies, this literature has remained almost entirely unknown to scholars because it was circulated in handwriting rather than printed with movable type. Drawing from book history, the sociology of knowledge and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone provides the first systematic account of the production, circulation and reception of these manuscript pamphlets. By placing them in the context of social change, state formation, and the emergence of 'politic' expertise, Millstone uses the pamphlets to resolve one of the central problems of early Stuart history: how and why did the men and women of early seventeenth-century England come to see their world as political?


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News Networks in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9004277196 900427717X 9789004277175 9789004277199 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv,

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News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.


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Landsknechte bei Hans Sachs : alte und neue Landsknechtstexte auf Einblattdrucken mit Holzschnitten
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ISBN: 3503166165 9783503166169 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin Erich Schmidt Verlag


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Print culture, crime and justice in 18th-century London
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ISBN: 9781474276436 1474276431 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. The older genres of criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets, and 'last-dying speeches' were joined by a raft of new publications, including newspapers, periodicals and prints. Richard M. Ward provides a detailed study of crime reporting across these publications and explores the influence of print upon contemporary perceptions of crime and upon the making of the law and its administration in the capital

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