The Lexicons of Early Modern News

Arblaster, Paul; Belo, André; Espejo, Carmen; Haffemayer, Stéphane; Infelise, Mario; Moxham, Noah; Raymond, Joad; Schobesberger, Nikolaus

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“…102 The title "English Mercurie" is not an inappropriate name: early newsbooks and newsletters in Europe used a wide variety of titles, including "coranto", "aviso", "gazette", or "mercury", both in manuscript and print. 103 The five texts of Yorke's English Mercurie in manuscript and print made a concerted attempt to dissimulate an early newspaper, albeit one of a somewhat later date than 1588. They reported the Armada crisis by recording intelligence received by the Queen's ministers in London, such as her principal secretary Francis Walsingham, from different correspondents and locations, such as the Lord High Admiral Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, of the Ark Royal (No.…”

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“…17 Other sources note Joseph Carolus's Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Strasbourg, 1605-) as the earliest surviving weekly newspaper in Europe; or Mercury Gallobelgicus, written in Latin and printed semi-annually from 1592 in Cologne. 18 More recent approaches to newspaper history, such as those of Joad Raymond, and the many contributors to Raymond and Moxham's News Networks in Early Modern Europe (2016), have largely obviated the question of determining "the first newspaper" by transforming the Whiggish approach into an enquiry organised around "news" as information traced through the international networks it creates, disseminated in the manuscript or print formats (newsletter, news pamphlet, newsbook, newspaper) appropriate to the diverse patterns of consumption of each network. In this context, the fact that The English Mercurie is not "the first newspaper" is less important than what its composition, dissemination, and preservation can tell us about the place of the newspaper in the practices of history writing in the Hardwicke circle.…”

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The English Mercurie Hoax and the Early History of the Newspaper

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In 1794 the Scottish antiquarian George Chalmers (1742-1825) undertook research into the origin of newspapers, "those pleasant vehicles of instruction, those entertaining companions of our mornings" for his biography of the Scottish publisher and scholar Thomas Ruddiman (1764-1757). After assessing the historical evidence, he declared that the first newspaper, which he defined as a regularly printed gazette of news, was English. It may gratify our national pride to be told, that mankind are indebted to the wisdom of Elizabeth and the prudence of Burleigh for the first newspaper. The epoch of the Spanish Armada is also the epoch of a genuine newspaper. In the British Museum, there are several newspapers , which had been printed while the Spanish fleet was in the English Channel, during the year 1588. It was a wise policy, to prevent, during a moment of general anxiety, the danger of false reports, by publishing real information. And the earliest newspaper is entitled, THE ENGLISH MERCURIE, which, by Authority, was "imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, her Highnesses printer, 1588". 1 Although Chalmers noted some oddities about this example (it was printed in "Roman, not in black, letter" and had certain anachronisms), his discovery was celebrated in literary journals and magazines. 2 Over the following decades, it was accepted as authoritative in a series of reference works, beginning with the fifth edition of Isaac Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature (1807), 3 and thereafter the fourth volume of John Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812), 4 Johann Beckmann's Concise History of Ancient Institutions (1823); 5 and from there in various encyclopaedias including Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1820), 6 Encyclopaedia Americana (1832), 7 Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon (1832), 8 and Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (1845). 9 There was only one problem with this patriotic discovery: it was a hoax. In 1839 The English Mercurie was exposed as a fake by Thomas Watts (1811-1869), Assistant Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. His published Letter to Antonio Panizzi Esq Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum (dated 16 November 1839) declared that "the claims of the English to the invention of printed Newspapers are unfortunately of no validity, and that the 'earliest Newspaper' in the Museum is an imposture". Rather than merely repeating Chalmers's claim, he had examined the item himself. "On the book being brought, I had not examined it two minutes, before, to my surprise, I was forced to conclude that the whole was a forgery". Consulting with his colleagues, John Winter Jones and Antonio Panizzi, they noticed various "marks of unauthenticity" and declared it was impossible that the printing was from 1588. The English Mercurie was, he concluded, "an imposition". 10 When he returned to the topic of this "spurious production" a decade later, in an article for the Gentleman's Magazine, he was able to identify the author as Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke (1720-1790), from his h...

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As digital convergence marks the transition from print to screen culture, translation plays an increasingly important role of in the production and dissemination of the news. The translation of information in the news media is a pervasive set of practices that affects the daily consumption of the news and a topic of relevance to scholars in several areas of the humanities and the social sciences. This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to research in news media translation practices, products and processes, illustrating and discussing historical, theoretical and descriptive perspectives. Inter- and multi-disciplinary research spans fields such as Translation Studies, Linguistics, Journalism and Media Studies, and includes approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis and narrative theory to Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. The book also offers first-hand analyses of news texts in English and Italian, approaching news translation from an ethnomethodological perspective.

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The Lexicons of Early Modern News

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