Cover illustration: ‘Anonymous, ‘Interior with a Man Writing on a Long Table’. France, 16th century. Drawing in brown ink, with gray and brown wash. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972.118.214).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Baars, Rosanne, 1988- editor.
Title: Rumours of revolt : civil war and the emergence of a transnational news culture in France and the Netherlands, 1561–1598 / by Rosanne M. Baars.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: The handpress world ; vol. 69 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021001699 (print) | LCCN 2021001700 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004423329 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004423336 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Foreign news—France—History—16th century. | Foreign news—Netherlands—History—16th century. | Press and politics—France—History—16th century. | Press and politics—Netherlands—History—16th century. | France—History—Wars of the Huguenots, 1562–1598—Press coverage. | France—History—Wars of the Huguenots, 1562–1598—Foreign public opinion. | Netherlands—Politics and government—1556–1648—Press coverage. | Netherlands—Politics and government—1556–1648—Foreign public opinion.
Classification: LCC PN5184.F67 B33 2021 (print) | LCC PN5184.F67 (ebook) | DDC 074.09/02—dc23
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