News invention. How the world learned about itself. Pettigri E.

The book of a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, a recognized writer, specializing in the Renaissance era, Andrew Pettigri first published in 2015 and was enthusiastically met by critics and American media. The New Yorker magazine called it “revealing history”, and the literary critic Adam Kirsch noted that the book is “an outstanding preface to the past that helps to understand our future.” Era until 1800, from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, examining in detail the instinct of people to search for news and the desire to be informed. The reader opens up a fascinating panorama of centuries with a truly multi -muddy exchange that has incorporated all the available means of news distribution -̶ conversations and rumors, civilian ceremonies and triumphs, church sermons and proclamations in squares, and with the onset of the printed era -pamphlets, ballads, newspapers and leaflets.