European News Culture during the English Revolution Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres (1650-1660)

This paper analyses a little-known London newspaper which appeared every week between 1650 and 1661, and which is remarkable for being published in French, as Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres. The aim is to use this little-known journal to develop new avenues of enquiry regarding print culture in ear...

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Published inMedia history Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 241 - 255
Main Author Peacey, Jason
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 03.04.2017
Subjects
British history
early modern
European history
French media history
newspaper history
political communication
seventeenth century
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Summary:This paper analyses a little-known London newspaper which appeared every week between 1650 and 1661, and which is remarkable for being published in French, as Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres. The aim is to use this little-known journal to develop new avenues of enquiry regarding print culture in early modern Europe, and to argue that, despite ongoing interest in seventeenth-century journalism, and repeated claims about the need to understand the European context of the English revolution, scholars have been strangely dismissive of this extraordinary journal. My suggestion will be that Nouvelle Ordinaires raises important issues about the commercial, confessional and political forces which influenced the flow of texts across state borders, as well as about novel practices relating to the translation of texts for distribution and consumption on a Europe-wide scale, all of which can be addressed by assessing its audience, its message and its purpose, not least in terms of the newspaper's multi-vocality.
ISSN:1368-8804
1469-9729
DOI:10.1080/13688804.2016.1270749