1st Edition

Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News

By David Randall Copyright 2008
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    Elizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military news shift from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers. This study is based on an examination of hundreds of manuscript news letters, printed pamphlets and corantos, and news diaries which are in holdings in the US and the UK.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 From Oral News to Written News; Chapter 2 Sociable News; Chapter 3 Anonymous News; Chapter 4 Building a New Standard of News Credibility; Chapter 5 Extensive News; conclusion Conclusion;

    Biography

    David Randall