This article presents the findings of exploratory research into the origins of OSINT for which it
discusses three case studies from, respectively, the United States, Germany and the …

Description: New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.| Includes bibliographical references
and index.| Summary:“As we begin to leave the Gutenberg age, and into a era dominated by …

Winner of the 2019 Menno Hertzberger Encouragement Prize for Book History and
Bibliography In Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century Arthur der …

In June 1607, a Tuscan fleet of about twenty ships and two thousand two hundred men
attacked the fortress of Famagusta in Cyprus, with the aim of making it the base for the …

This article provides an overview of the Tuscan information network on Safavid Persia,
paying particular attention to the first decades of the seventeenth century. Since Tuscany …

In light of the mobility turn in the humanities, this chapter attempts to rethink networks of
communication and the circulation of handwritten news in early modern Europe …

Virgil described fama as a monster:“Her body is covered with as many eyes, mouths,
tongues, and ears as it has feathers.” The more people see, hear, and talk, the more fama …

This article offers an in-depth exploration of The Salvetti Project, a groundbreaking initiative
dedicated to the digitisation and analysis of handwritten newsletters from the Medici …

Abstract On 21 April 1606, Nicolas Trigault (1577-1628) departed his homeland of Belgium
for the Jesuit missions in the East Indies. For the next 21 years, he fulfilled many roles. Aside …

Before the advent of printed newspapers, news circulated in Europe in the form of
handwritten newsletters sent by agents, ambassadors, informers to courts, noblemen …