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Brendan Dooley, PhD (1986, University of Chicago), is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. Among other endeavors in the field of media studies, he has been the principal investigator of the Irish Research Council-funded EURONEWS project inaugurated in 2019. Alexander S. Wilkinson, PhD (2002, University of St Andrews), is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of the European book in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

List of Figures and Tables


Notes on Contributors


Introduction





Part 1: Early Modern Origins


Section 1: The Force of News


1 1600: A Year to Remember


 Sara Mansutti, Wouter Kreuze, Carlotta Paltrinieri, Lorenzo Allori, Davide Boerio and Brendan Dooley





2 Information Shadows


Meteorological Disaster and Misinformation across Europe in the Wake of the 1625 Raid on Cadiz


 Thom Pritchard





Section 2: Natural Disasters


3 Troubling News Travels Fast


The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy


 Alessandro Tuccillo





4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the “Revolutions” of Naples of 1647–48


 Davide Boerio and Luca Marangolo





5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press


Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events


 Milena Viceconte





6 ‘Yet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earth’


News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England


 Lena Liapi





Section 3: Rebellion and War


7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion


Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence


 Eamon Darcy





8 The Power of the Pen


Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century


 Panagiotis Georgakakis





Part 2: Eighteenth-Century Developments


Section 4: Circulation and Reception


9 Tadhg Ó Neachtain


A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin


 Liam Mac Mathúna





10 MURDER! He Wrote


The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787–1809)


 Bláithín Hurley





11 News about Justice


Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe


 Pasquale Palmieri





12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760–1780


News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories


 Joel Herman





Part 3: The Media and the Masses


Section 5: The Politics of News


13 The Wars at Home


Victorian Imperial Sieges and the Conscription of Public Opinion


 Brian Wallace





14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938


A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the ‘Munich Betrayal’


 Johana Kłusek





15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front?


Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media


 Ondřej Daniel and Jakub Machek





16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans


An Anthropological Perspective


 Aodhán Morris





Section 6: Trouble in the Headlines


17 Hyde and the Media—Friend or Foe?


 Máire Nic an Bhaird





18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915–18, and British Cartoon Responses


 Chris Williams





19 ‘Every Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injured’


The Irish Press’s Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era


 Leanne Blaney





20 Making a Splash


A Brief History of Headlines


 Daniel Carey





Part 4: Beyond the News


21 Challenges beyond the News


Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness


 Jane L. Chapman





Index