Die in Gotha erscheinende Zeitung "Der Anzeiger" stellte auch wichtige Fragen der #Aufklärung mit Alltagsbezug. Am 31.3.1792 ging es um vergiftete Grillen, die einem ins Getränk fielen. Durfte man das Getränk nun noch trinken ohne sich selbst zu gefährden? Und gibt es da "kein Mittel" gegen?
Wer hat Interesse an einem Beitrag für den #Historikertag 2025 in Bonn? Ich plane eine Sektion zu manipulierten Nachrichtenströmen in Europa seit der Frühen Neuzeit (maybe in English: manipulated news flows in Europe since the early modern period).
Die hohe Politikbeobachtung schlug sich auch in den Notizen in Kalendern nieder, wie Ágnes Dukkon (Budapest) betont. 1686 ging es, beispielsweise, um militärische Meldungen zum "Türkenkrieg" in Südosteuropa.
Stamping rules, as friends of the #LibraryStampMadness series already know. So here we have a big library stamp on the title page of a newspaper collection from 1666, almost touching Mercury, the symbol of the #earlymodern news system, and on top of this, another library stamp: "Ungültig", meaning: invalid in German. Having and being allowed to use an "Ungültig"-library stamp was of importance.
Dass aus #FakeNews-Vorwürfen rasch eine Kritik des gesamten Nachrichtengewerbes werden kann, lässt sich im 21. Jahrhundert ebenso feststellen wie im frühen 17. Jahrhundert.
Mein Vortrag zu frühneuzeitlicher Medienkritik und Ohnmachtserfahrung in Kriegszeiten findet am 31.1.'24 in der @hab_wf statt:
Run, early modern postal horse with your messenger sitting on top blowing the post horn, run. @histodons
You see a video of the identical printed image used in the 1670s on the title page of the Nuremberg “Wochentliche Ordinari Post-Zeitung”. Re-used Woodblock, here we go. #bookhistory #histodons#newshistory
Read other news, select good stories, copy + paste the texts and images, slightly rearrange the sentences, combine the stories into a new publication, and: Et voilà, offer your stuff as a new news item.
In 1684, someone combined three topics that were published elsewhere, and then republished them in a new pamphlet. #NewsHistory
Meet the pamphlet's story about severe weather, a ghost story, a wonder flour in this thread, #histodons and #bookhistory nerds:
Reading and writing letters is only one part of the story, as #bookhistory and #newshistory experts already know. Receiving a letter, a locked letter, like this lady in 1670 Paris, is one step of a complex communication process around moving ideas , stories and data connected to paper sheets. However, receiving a letter was and still is an important thing. In early modern Europe, this paper letter made you a witness, a news participator, a networker, an important person worth of news flows.
That's the #BreakingNews reference of early modern Europe: "the Newest of the Newest".
You see a German news pamphlet of 1618 with the meta title "Nova Novorvm Novissima ..." (in English: "the Newest of the Newest") followed by the title of the very news item ("Das ist Zeytung von ...").
A catchy phrase that made sure everyone noticed that you are selling something worthy helped selling news. The news business was always a business. #NewsHistory#Histodons
Selling the news was always a business that needed distribution strategies. Here, you see a mobile seller of early modern printed news. Let's focus on the details of this image, a woodcut print of 1631 covering a small pamphlet published in German speaking Europe during the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar, in a thread for #bookhistory and #newshistory experts, and of course all #histodons in general.