All but their business: Diplomats in the Newspaper Press
(2014) Splendid Encounters: Diplomats and Diplomacy in Europe, 1500-1750 — Location: Downside Abbey, near Bath (4.April.2014)
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- (en) In the early 17th century diplomats were presented with new opportunities and new challenges by the emergence of the newspaper press. This was a previously unknown medium for the public dissemination of messages that could burnish or sully the reputation of the community or crown that a diplomat represented. There are numerous 17th-century instances of diplomats making representations about, or otherwise seeking to influence, newspaper coverage. Newspaper editors themselves were primarily interested in high matters of state, above all war and diplomacy, and did their best to keep abreast of events. They could follow the movements of armies and ambassadors with some exactness, but were often reduced to guesswork about their instructions or intentions. This paper will examine the interaction of diplomats and the newspaper press in the seventeenth century, primarily on the basis of the archives and surviving editions of newspapers of the Habsburg Netherlands (Belgium) in the period 1620-1660.
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Arblaster, P. (2014). All but their business: Diplomats in the Newspaper Press. Splendid Encounters: Diplomats and Diplomacy in Europe, 1500-1750, Downside Abbey, near Bath. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/244101