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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Hardcover
2008
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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.

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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.

$201.39

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 May 2008
ISBN 10: 185196956X
ISBN 13: 9781851969562

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'Well supported by a wide range of manuscript and printed primary sources, Randall's argument will be very useful to scholars of print culture, the news, political culture, rhetoric, and military history.' H-Albion