Dissemination of News in the Spanish Baroque

Abstract

This text analyses the dissemination of news in the Spanish language throughout Europe during the seventeenth century, with attention given to the principal strategies put into effect by printers, publishers, entrepreneurs and newsmongers for printed newssheets. Concretely, it analyses how the emergence of several weekly newspapers occurred in the Low Countries, both in those areas under the Spanish monarchy (with Brussels as the main focus for the emission of news) and those that were not (with Amsterdam and the Jewish community originating from the Iberian peninsula as the basic news agents), and their reception and redistribution within Spain. Here, in their turn, certain cities stood out that, for various reasons, received and distributed news from several parts of Europe; these were principally Seville, San Sebastián and Barcelona, where, besides, genuine news offices were established.

Gazeta de Amsterdam: History and content analysis

“…The history of the Gazeta de Amsterdam was summarily explained in a couple of articles published in 2012 (Díaz Noci, 2002 and2012) so this paper is addressed to provide more details on the creation, development and historical context of this newspaper, and of some other journalistic initiatives related to it, like the Italianlanguage Gazzetta d'Amsterdam. We will base our work on new recently found items of both newspapers, which can help to complete the facts we know about an active Jewish printer and editor, they are a modest step forward towards a better knowledge of the Spanish-language journalism of the period, and a bibliographical contribution to shed some more light on the catalogue of a couple of newspapers published in Early Modern Europe.…”

Front-page illustrations and political powers in Early Modern Spanish journalism

“…The corpus encompasses the period from the years running up to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War until the start of the armed conflict with France, a moment of remarkable vibrancy and interest in the history of journalism in the early modern age. If the former served to boost the demand for news on the part of the citizenry of all the Western European states, 4 the latter signified for Spain the beginning of a period of relative isolation with respect to news networks, owing to the blockade that prevented the Spanish postal routes crossing French territory from being used (Díaz-Noci, 2012).…”