Resumen:
Introduction / Brendan Dooley -- Part I The English model -- 1 Eyes and ears, news and plays: the argument of Ben Jonson’s Staple / Stuart Sherman -- 2 The guises of dissemination in early seventeenth-century England: news in manuscript and print / Sabrina A. Baron -- 3 News and the pamphlet culture of mid-seventeenth-century England / Michael Mendle -- 4 News, history and the construction of the present in early modern England / Daniel Woolf -- Part II The Continent -- 5 The origins of the German press / Thomas Schröder -- 6 Newspapers in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century / Otto Lankhorst -- 7 Instruments of political information in France / Jean-Pierre Vittu -- 8 Policy and publishing in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1585–1690 / Paul Arblaster -- 9 Politics and the press in Spain / Henry Ettinghausen -- 10 The war, the news and the curious: military gazettes in Italy / Mario Infelise -- 11 The politics of information in seventeenth-century Scandinavia / Paul Ries -- Part III Pan-European trajectories -- 12 News and doubt in early modern culture: or, are we having a public sphere yet? / Brendan Dooley -- Postscript / Brendan Dooley.