During the 16th century, pamphlet readers were exposed to a variety of content. This news often affected the readers themselves, or large groups of people elsewhere. One of the primary topics covered in this “developing news market” was natural disasters and other natural phenomena. The instinctual fear and curiosity about the unknown would drive these […]
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The wonders of nature: when disaster strikes in the public eye
Posted by: kasibumgarner | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |
under: Comm 455
Tags: 1570, 16th century, All Saints Flood, Comm 455, kasibumgarner, natural disasters, Pamphlet, Sensationalism, wonders of nature
Tags: 1570, 16th century, All Saints Flood, Comm 455, kasibumgarner, natural disasters, Pamphlet, Sensationalism, wonders of nature
The Flugschriften and the emergence of a shorter publication
Posted by: evansp12 | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |Flugschriften first appeared in the 16th century. These were published news in the form of short pamphlets. Flugschriften, which means “pamphlets” in German, came about at the time of the reformation. Many of them focused their writing around the propoganda of the Reformation movement, the Thirty Years War, the French Revolution and the Peasant’s War. […]
Redefining the publishing market in the 16th century
Posted by: kponcian | November 4, 2014 | No Comment |“What emerges from the 16th century is a reading public ready to invest in printed material from broadsheets to pamphlets to books that went beyond their trade or devotional lives.” Over the 16th century, the publishing market was refined: news pamphlets recorded local news in addition to foreign sensationalized news, sensations were the stock […]
under: Comm 455, Local news
Tags: 16th century, broader market, Europe, Kponcian, Literacy., local news, News, press, printing press, Publishing, Renaissance, thirst for news
Tags: 16th century, broader market, Europe, Kponcian, Literacy., local news, News, press, printing press, Publishing, Renaissance, thirst for news