Corr Cult Exch Early Mod Europe v3

Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King's College London. He was director of the National Library of Portugal (1996-1998) and director of the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris (1999-2004). Florike Egmond is a Researcher at the Scaliger Institute, Universiteit Leiden. She has written, with Peter Mason, The Mammoth and the Mouse. Microhistory and Morphology (1997) and edited, with Rob Zwijnenberg, Bodily extremities. Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture (2003).

A ground-breaking reassessment of the status of information in early modern Europe, first published in 2007.

Introduction Francisco Bethencourt and Florike Egmond; Part I. Networks and Markets of Information: 1. From merchants' letters to handwritten avvisi. Notes on the origins of public information Mario Infelise; 2. Handwritten newsletters as means of communication in Europe Renate Pieper and Zsuzsa Barbarics; 3. Merchant letters across geographical and social boundaries Francesca Trivellato; 4. Correspondence and natural history in the sixteenth century: cultures of exchange in the circle of Carolus Clusius Florike Egmond; Part II. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Artists, Patrons, Collectors: 5. Letters and portraits: economy of time and chivalrous service in courtly life Fernando Bouza; 6. The letter as deferred presence: Nicolas Poussin to Paul Fréart de Chantelou. 28 April 1639 Peter Mason; 7. The role of correspondence in the transmission of collecting patterns in seventeenth-century Europe: models, media and main characters Irene Baldriga; Part III. Uses and Meanings of Correspondence: Noblemen, Peasants, Spies: 8. The political correspondence of Albuquerque and Cortés Francisco Bethencourt; 9. Spying in the Ottoman Empire: sixteenth-century encrypted correspondence Dejanirah Couto; 10. The correspondence of illiterate peasants in early modern Hungary Istvan Grigor Toth.