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A Critique of Periodicity in Early Modern Journalism. The First Spanish Serial Gazette: Gazeta de Roma in Valencia (1618–1620)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2015

Carmen Espejo  and
Francisco Baena
Carmen Espejo
Affiliation:
Facultad de Comunicación, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 41.092 Sevilla, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Francisco Baena
Affiliation:
Facultad de Comunicación, Avda. Américo Vespucio, 41.092 Sevilla, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper we propose a methodological critique of the History of Early Modern Journalism. Our proposal recommends a review of the ‘micro’ concept applied to research in The History of Early Modern Journalism. The current study on the Gazeta de Roma in Valencia (1618–1620) is a sample of this microscopic procedure, and is an important and revealing example that enables us to reinterpret the concept of periodicity. We will discuss the value of periodicity as a demarcation. The contemporaries of the first European newspapers applied characteristics and criteria other than periodicity: a ‘newspaper’ was then a serial document that informed progressively about the news from a certain area at that time, the continuity of which was recognizable thanks to certain typographical resources, in the absence of the header concept.

Type
Focus: Early Modern Print Culture in Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 341 - 353
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2015 

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