3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News
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4 juillet 2018
- handle: 10670/1.ivl73d
- isbn: 9781783743735
- eisbn: 9791036509681
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Daniel C. Waugh et al., « 3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.ivl73d
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Treatments of the emergence of European “modernity” invariably emphasise the development of mechanisms for the rapid dissemination of knowledge. The establishment of postal networks and in the seventeenth century the rapid proliferation of printed newspapers made possible the sharing of news across political and social boundaries, thus contributing to a growing sense of “contemporaneity” on, eventually, a Europe-wide scale. The degree to which Muscovite Russia participated in this “informatio...