Early Modern Media and the News in Europe.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koopmans, Joop W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2018.
Series:Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎Figures and Tables; ‎Figures; ‎Tables; ‎Introduction; ‎Chapter 1. Storehouses of News: the Meaning of Early Modern News Periodicals in Western Europe; ‎1. The Genre's Name; ‎2. From Messrelationen to Mercuries and Yearbooks; ‎3. Purpose, Meaning, Audience and Editors of News Periodicals; ‎4. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 2. The Presentation of News in the Europische Mercurius (1690-1756); ‎1. Title and Title Page, the Publishers and the Editors; ‎2. The Organisation of the Europische Mercurius; ‎3. Geographical Divisions; the Netherlands and Its Neighbours
  • ‎4. Geographical Divisions: the Other Territories‎5. Conclusion; ‎6. Appendix: Explanation in Verse of the Title Page Engraving of the Europische Mercurius of 1726; ‎Chapter 3. The Glorification of Three Prussian Sovereigns in the Europische Mercurius (1690-1756); ‎1. Brandenburg-Prussia at the Source; ‎2. The Reign of Elector-King Frederick III/I (1690-1713): Cursory Reporting; ‎3. The Reign of King Frederick William I (1713-1740): Described in More Depth; ‎4. The Reign of Frederick II the Great (1740-1756): Glory and Criticism; ‎5. Conclusion
  • ‎Chapter 4. Politics in Title Prints: Examples from the Dutch News Book Europische Mercurius (1690-1756)‎1. The Freedom Hat, the Janus Temple and Other Political Symbolism; ‎2. The Triumphal Entry of King-Stadtholder William III in 1691; ‎3. Jacobite Adder's Brood in 1723; ‎4. Polish Lutherans Decapitated in Toruñ in 1725; ‎5. Epilogue; ‎Chapter 5. Publishers, Editors and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic Circa 1700: the Case of Jan Goeree and the Europische Mercurius; ‎1. Jan Goeree in the Triangle of Publisher, Editor and Artist
  • ‎2. The Use of Illustrations as a Selling Point and Other Merchandising Policies‎3. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 6. Research in Digitized Early Modern Dutch Newspapers and the News Value of Advertisements; ‎1. Categories of Early Advertisements; ‎2. The News Value of Early Advertisements; ‎3. Final Remarks; ‎Chapter 7. Anything but Marginal: the Politics of Paper Use and Layout in Early Modern Dutch Newspapers; ‎1. The Dutch Standard: Two Pages in Folio with Two News Columns Each; ‎2. Anthoni de Groot's Experiments in His 's Gravenhaegse Courant; ‎3. Marginal Printing in Other Dutch Newspapers
  • ‎4. The End of Marginal Printing‎5. Concluding Remarks; ‎Chapter 8. A Sense of Europe: the Making of This Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media; ‎1. Argument One: Europe in Dutch News Media Titles; ‎2. Argument Two: Europe in Dutch Newspapers' Content; ‎3. Argument Three: News about Europe in a Eurocentric Layout; ‎4. Argument Four: the Presence of Europe in News Prints; ‎5. Conclusion; ‎Chapter 9. Supply and Speed of Foreign News to the Netherlands during the Eighteenth Century: a Comparison of Newspapers in Haarlem and Groningen; ‎1. Two Dutch Newspapers and the Origin of Their News