The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren #literature followed by a high-pitched wailing

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The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren #literature followed by a high-pitched wailingAn epic history of the birth of news in Europe. News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel. This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in modern times. It begins in Renaissance Italy, with the envoys and merchants who drew in and disseminated news across