The invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. This book is the first to bring together some of the innovative work in this burgeoning field.

General introduction Brendan DooleyPart I. The English Model Introduction Sabrina BaronEyes, ears, news and plays Stuart ShermanManuscript news/printed news: the two faces of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England Sabrina BaronNews and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England Michael MendleNews, history and the construction of the present in early modern England Daniel WoolfPart II. The Continent Introduction Brendan DooleyThe origins of the German press Thomas SchröderNewspapers in the Netherlands Otto LankhorstInstruments of political information in France Jean-Pierre VittuPolicy and publishing in the Habsburg Netherlands Paul ArblasterPolitics and the press in Spain Henry EttinghausenThe war, the news, and the curious: Italian military gazettes during the holy league Mario InfeliseThe politics of information in seventeenth-century Scandinavia Paul ReisPart III. Pan European Trajectories News and doubt in early modern culture. Or, are we having a public sphere yet? Brendan Dooley