Copies of newsletters exist throughout the archives, since handwritten newsletters were a business, whereby writers and scribes produced multiple exemplars for sending out to their lists of subscribers. Copies might be copied up in turn, by whoever wished to send…
Author: Brendan Dooley
Shocking news from Hungary: according to a source in Graz writing on January 17 1600, “By the last letters . . . there is a report that Ibrahim Bassa, after having strangled the chief of the Tatars, as was already…
DATE TBD WORKSHOP:THE HANDWRITTEN NEWSLETTERS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEGIORNATA DI STUDIO:AVVISI MANOSCRITTI NELLA PRIMA ETÀ MODERNA The widespread communication of statements and narratives, true and false, regarding current occurrences of common interest, which under the term ‘news’ constitutes a much-discussed…