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This book explores the reception of foreign news during the late sixteenth-century civil wars in France and the Netherlands. Analysing a large body of French and Dutch chronicles, Rosanne Baars innovatively demonstrates that the wider public was well aware of events abroad, though interest in foreign conflicts was far from constant. She sheds new light on the connections between the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion: contemporaries were gradually more inclined to see these wars as part of an international struggle. Baars argues that these times of civil war made inhabitants of both countries more apt at distinguishing rumour from reliable reports, thus contributing to the emergence of a public of critical news consumers.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 268
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Publication Date:
22 April 2021
ISBN: 9789004423329
Format: Other
“highly innovative … fascinating … impressive … Baars brings to light a dimension of the societies of the sixteenth century that is often left in the dark.”
Gautier Mingous, Université Lumière Lyon 2. In: Early Modern Low Countries, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2021), pp. 380–382.
“Rosanne M. Baars’s study of the circulation, reception, and interpretation of news in France and the Netherlands in the late sixteenth century is a highly engaging, carefully researched, and persuasively argued volume. […] This is a fascinating and important work which sheds light on the way that contemporaries understood two major European conflicts. It clarifies the complexity of the early modern media world and shows how commentators were often highly discerning when presented with new information, an approach we can all admire.”
Sara Barker, University of Leeds. In: French Studies, 2022, knac141, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac141.
Gautier Mingous, Université Lumière Lyon 2. In: Early Modern Low Countries, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2021), pp. 380–382.
“Rosanne M. Baars’s study of the circulation, reception, and interpretation of news in France and the Netherlands in the late sixteenth century is a highly engaging, carefully researched, and persuasively argued volume. […] This is a fascinating and important work which sheds light on the way that contemporaries understood two major European conflicts. It clarifies the complexity of the early modern media world and shows how commentators were often highly discerning when presented with new information, an approach we can all admire.”
Sara Barker, University of Leeds. In: French Studies, 2022, knac141, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac141.
Rosanne M. Baars, Ph.D. (2019, University of Amsterdam) is Lecturer in History at that university. Her research focuses on the history of news and media, early modern France, diplomatic history, the Ottoman Empire and maritime history.