De bonne main : les pourvoyeurs de nouvelles à Rome au XVIIe siècle - article ; n°6 ; vol.54, pg 1317-1344

Brendan Dooley

Description

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - Année 1999 - Volume 54 - Numéro 6 - Pages 1317-1344
In big round hand purveyors of news in seventeenth-century Rome.
This article explores the way in which political information became a commodity in Western Europe in the early modern period through the regular transmission of handwritten notices or avvisi on political affairs. In Venice, veritable scriptoria employing dozens of scribes reproduced these sheets for long lists of customers. The focus here is on a group of newsletter writers operating in Rome in the seventeenth century. New evidence reveals that many of them worked in the offices of well- known notaries. They based their information on sheets they found already in circulation, on rumors, as well as on secret diplomatic sources ; and very often their sheets, or copies made from them, were sold openly on the streets. The relative immunity they enjoyed, as well as the longevity of their profession in spite of the advent of printed newspapers, was due to their connection to the powerful patronage networks described here.
28 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: ANNALES_D-HISTOIRE_ECONOMIQUE_ET_SOCIALE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1999
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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