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Rumours of revolt : civil war and the emergence of a transnational news culture in France and the Netherlands, 1561-1598 /

"This book explores the reception of foreign news in the late sixteenth-century civil wars in France and the Netherlands. Using a large number of French and Dutch chronicles, Baars innovatively demonstrates that the wider public was well aware of events abroad, though mutual interest in the oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baars, Rosanne, 1988- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:The handpress world ; vol. 69
Library of the written word, vol. 88
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The French wars of religion and the Dutch Revolt
  • News and news scholarship
  • Chronicling and chroniclers
  • The media world of the sixteenth-century chronicler
  • Scope and structure
  • The first troubles (1561-1566) : iconoclasm
  • The sound of the flute from France
  • Open borders and transnational news networks after Cateay-Cambrésis (1559)
  • Iconoclasm in France and the Netherlands
  • News about the First War of Religion and French iconoclasm
  • Foreign influences
  • The iconoclastic fury as a news event
  • A more suitable topic for news pamphlets : the Ottomans
  • An awkward event
  • Borrowing responses from France
  • War, fame, and noble leadership, 1567-1571
  • Fame
  • Praise, poetry, and prints
  • Famous Frenchmen during the first years of the religious wars
  • News about Alva, Orange, and the Troubles in the Netherlands
  • Egmont and Hornes
  • Don Carlos
  • St Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the credibility of news, 1572
  • Part 1. Reactions to the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in the Netherlands
  • Part 2. Credibility and verification
  • Peace negotiations, 1576-1579
  • Peace attempts in France and in the Netherlands
  • Parallels and differences
  • French news regarding the events in the Netherlands
  • Pamphlets and readership
  • International pamphleteering
  • Explaining a coup d'etat
  • Ideas regarding public communication
  • French peace edicts in the Netherlands
  • Anjou, 1578-1583
  • Anjou goes to the Netherlands
  • Netherlandish expectations
  • Marriage plans
  • News from France
  • French news networks in the Netherlands
  • French views of Anjou's mission in the Netherlands
  • Why go to the Netherlands
  • Anjou's honour
  • The French fury : "Anvers, l'enfer"
  • Transnational solidarities, 1584-1598
  • Chroniclers take sides
  • The murder of William of Orange
  • The siege and surrender of Antwerp
  • The Armada
  • A single European audience
  • The murders of the Guises and Henry III
  • separation in print
  • Navarre versus Farnese
  • Alternative facts
  • Mirroring murder : the affair of Maurice of Nassau and the assault with the quadruple cutting knife
  • Conclusion
  • Two civil wars in France and the Netherlands
  • The emergence of a transnational news culture
  • The well-informed chronicler.