Abstract
Although early modern news is often treated by scholars as a form of ephemera, news publications sometimes had a longer life: collected, bound together, read and considered long after the events they describe. This article examines how and why news, both printed and manuscript, became an object for early modern collectors, and how those collections were used. Drawing from the history of scholarship, it discusses some of the paratexts, like indices and timelines, that made longer news publications usable as reference works.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 177-198 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Media History |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 17 Mar 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Apr 2017 |
Keywords
- news
- periodicals
- Europe
- United Kingdom
- early modern
- newsbooks