Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News (Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period)

by David Randall (Author), David Randall (Author)

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  2016

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  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.