CURRENT PROJECTS

 

 

 

 




A basic element of continuity between the European peoples across time and space has been the exchange of information about current affairs.  In the 16th and 17th centuries, this network was created; and it continued to exist without interruption throughout the development of national states.
  Therefore, to understand this network is to understand a key feature of Europe as a cultural and geographical entity.  The aim of our research is to trace the network for the transmission of news.  Methodologically, we will be undertaking a series of comparative studies, including the analysis of currently available data as well as the creation of new data where necessary.

 

International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Click for paper

 

International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Click for slides

 

MAJOR THEMES IN CURRENT PROJECT RESEARCH:

 

KEY CONJUNCTURES

 

Soundings are taken in major publication areas (manuscript and print) including cities in France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Low Countries, Britain, regarding the major research themes, chiefly in seven cross-sections, these being:

 

1588

1618

1623

1648

1653

1683

 1700

The soundings necessary for creation of a working body of material for our seven chosen years are worked into each project secondarily (not as a primary focus).

 

INTERTEXTUALITIES

 

One principal focus under this theme is on single archives such as the Bremen Press Archive, analyzing German news and its sources, on the basis of ntertextualities within texts in the Archive (handlist of texts in Bogel u. Blühm 1971)

 

Another  focus attempts to tie in particular archives with other archives:  for instance, the Medici Archive Project and the German Press Archive.

 

Yet another focus ties manuscript with printed news (Venice archives with Vatican archives; Florence archives with Early Printed Newspapers etc.)

 

SPACES OF EXCHANGE

 

This theme concerns the spatial dimensions of communication, in terms of cognitive cartography and the formation of spatial consciousness, on the one hand, and, on the other, the actual creation of links between places via manuscript and print exchanges.

 

PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (rev. ed. London: 1991)

Guy Arbellot, Autour des routes de poste: les premières cartes routières de la France, XVIIe-XIXe siècle (Paris: 1992)

Johannes Arndt and Esther-Beate Körber, eds., Das Mediensystem im Alten Reich der Frühen Neuzeit 1600 - 1750 (Veroffentlichungen Des Instituts Fur Europaische Geschichte) (Göttingen: 2009)

Oswald Bauer, Zeitungen vor der Zeitung. Die Fuggerzeitungen (1568-1605) und das frühmoderne Nachrichtensystem (Berlin: 2011)

Christopher Alan Bayly, Empire and information: intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: 1996)

Wolfgang Behringer, Im Zeichen des Merkur. Reichspost und Kommunikationsrevolution in der Frühen Neuzeit (Göttingen: 2003)

Wolfgang Behringer, ‘‘Von der Gutenberg-Galaxis zur Taxis-Galaxis.’ Die Kommunikationsrevolution - ein Konzept zum besseren Verständnis der Frühen Neuzeit,’ Kommunikation und Medien in der Frühen Neuzeit, Johannes Burkhardt and Christine Werkstetter, eds. (Munich 2005), pp. 39-54.

Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond, eds., Correspondence and cultural exchange in Europe, 1400 - 1700 (Cambridge: 2007)

Ann Blair, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (New Haven:  2010)

Rebecca Ard Boone, War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France : Claude de Seyssel and the Language of Politics in the Renaissance (Leiden: 2007)

Giovanni Botero, Della ragion di stato (Venice: 1589)

Fernand Braudel, La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (Paris: 1966)

Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, vol. 1: The Structure of Everyday Life, tr. Sián Reynolds (Berkeley: 1992)

Peter Burke, A Social History of Knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot (Cambridge: 2000)

Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (Farnham, Surrey: 1994)

B. Caizzi, Dalla posta dei re alla posta di tutti : territorio e comunicazioni in Italia dal XVI secolo all’Unità (Prato: 1993)

Regina Dauser, Informationskultur und Beziehungswissen – das Korrespondenznetz Hans Fuggers (1531-1598) (Tübingen: 2008)

Brendan Dooley, The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture (Baltimore: 1999)

Brendan Dooley, ed., The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (Farnham, Surrey: 2010)

Brendan Dooley, ed. with Sabrina Baron, The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, (Abingdon, Oxford: 2001)

Brendan Dooley, “Sources and Methods in Information History,” News and Politics in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, ed. Koopmans, Groningen, 2005,  pp. 29-46

Brendan Dooley, “Art and information brokerage in the career of Don Giovanni de' Medici. In H. Cools, M. Keblusek, & B. Noldus (Eds.), Your Humble Servant, Agents in Early Modern Europe, Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2006 (pp. 81-96)

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (Cambridge: 1980)

Carmen Espejo, ‘European Communication Networks in the Early Modern Age: a new framework of interpretation for the birth of journalism,’ Media History 17, 2 (2011): 189-202

Heiner Fangerau and Thorsten Halling, Netzwerke:  allgemeine Theorie oder Universalmetapher in den Wissenschaften?  (Bielefeld: 2009)

Michèle Fogel, Les Cérémonies de l'information dans la France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: 1989)

Susanne Friedrich, et al., ed., Information in der Frühen Neuzeit : Status, Bestände, Strategien (Berlin: 2008)

Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions.  The Wonder of the New World (Chicago: 1991)

Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, tr. Thomas Burger (Cambridge, MA: 1991)

Denys Hay, Europe: The Emergence of an Idea (Edinburgh: 1957).

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Werke, vol. 10, ed. Eva Moldenhauer (Frankfurt: 1970)

Anita Hipfinger, Josef Löffler, ‘Die Wiener Fugger-Zeitungen – Eine Bestandsaufnahme,’ MIÖG 117 (2009), 379–398.

Mario Infelise, Prima dei giornali : alle origini della pubblica informazione, secoli XVI e XVII (Roma: 2002)

Katrin Keller and Paola Molino, Die Fuggerzeitungen im Kontext. Zeitungssammlungen im Alten Reich und in Italien, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergb. 59 (Vienna, 2015)

Victor Klarwill, The Fugger News-Letter, Being a Selection of Unpublished Letters from the Correspondents of the House of Fugger During the Years 1568-1605 (London: 1924)

Martin Krieger and Michael North, eds., Land und Meer: Kultureller Austausch zwischen Westeuropa und dem Ostseeraum in der Fruhen Neuzeit (Cologne: 2004)

Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social:  An Introduction to Actor Network Theory (Cambridge: 2005)

Claire Lemercier, ‘Analyse de résaux et histoire,’ Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 52 (2005): 88-112

François Moureau, Répertoire des nouvelles à la main : dictionnaire de la presse manuscrite clandestine XVIe-XVIIIe siècle (Oxford: 1999)

Johannes Albertus Franciscus Orbaan, Documenti sul barocco in Roma (Rome: 1920)

Anthony Pagden, ed., The Idea of Europe from Antiquity to the European Union (Cambridge: 2002)

Johann Petitjean, ‘Mots et pratiques de l’information. Ce que aviser veut dire (xvie–xviie siècles)’, Mélanges de l’École française de Rome—Italie et Méditerranée, 122.1 (2010), pp. 107–21.

Johann Petitjean, L’intelligence des choses. Une histoire de l’information entre l’Italie et Mediterranée (Rome: École Française de Rome, 2013),

Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News,.  How the World Came to Know About Itself (Yale U.P.: 2014)

Krzysztof Pomian, ‘European identity: Historical fact and political problem,’ (in Dutch), L. Ornstein and L. Breemer, eds., Paleis Europa. Grote denkers over Europa, as ‘De Europese identiteit : een historisch feit en een politiek problem’, Amsterdam 2007, pp. 29-54; Transit 37 (2009) (German version)

Joad Raymond,  ed. News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe (London: 2006)

Joad Raymond  and Noah Moxham, eds. News Networks in Early Modern Europe  (Leyden: 2016).

Hermann Roodenburg, Forging European Identities, 1400-1700 (Cambridge: 2007)

Massimo Rospocher, ‘L’invenzione delle notizie? Informazione e comunicazione nell’Europa moderna,’ Storica 64 (2016): 1-22.

Bo Stråth, ‘A European Identity: To the Historical Limits of a Concept,’ European Journal of Social Theory (2002): 387-401

Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge: 1999)

Johannes Weber, ‘Straßburg 1605. Die Geburt der Zeitung,’ Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte  7 (2005): 3–26

Cornel Zwierlein, Discorso und Lex Dei : die Entstehung neuer Denkrahmen im 16. Jahrhundert und die Wahrnehmung der französischen Religionskriege in Italien und Deutschland (Gottingen: 2006)