22 septembre 2020
Michael Schaich, « Manuscript News Sheets: A Neglected Medium of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.i2b7d5
At the turn of the eighteenth century, newspapers had established themselves as the principal port of call for readers with a strong taste for current affairs. One hundred years after the first newspaper had been printed in Strasbourg in 1605, the new medium had spread to all parts of western and central Europe. London alone sported nine newspapers in 1704, while the Holy Roman Empire was home to roughly sixty titles, most of which appeared several times per week. This was a considerabl...