An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris

White Field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century

“…In England and France, scribal culture ourished in aristocratic coteries, religious sects and revolutionary movements during the 17th and 18th centuries (Darnton 2000, Ezell 1993, Gelbart 1987, Love 1993, while in Iceland, scribal culture has played an important role in education, entertainment and emotional support in rural communities until the early 20th century (Davíð Ólafsson & Sigurður Gyl Magnússon 2002).…”

A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1

“…each one talks about everything he has heard and observed that day. They speak of the kingdoms, the wars, the treaties' (quoted in Infelise 2001, p. 230;compare Farge 1994 andDarnton 2000). JW: Maybe this is a change; I mean the Inquisitors' concern about this kind of gossip, not its existence.…”

Current Trends in Knowledge Production: An Historical–Institutional Analysis

“…Historians of the Enlightenment often speak of a media revolution, seeing in commercial publishing ventures like the multivolume French Encyclopédie a parallel to the massive growth of today's information-rich society. 8 But in a dramatic reversal, seekers of knowledge, instead of procuring a set of quality encyclopedias and setting forth into the world, streamed back into the universities. This seed of reinvention was sown not in ultramodern France but in backward Germany, among evangelical Protestants who bucked the Enlightenment trend toward 'extensive', promiscuous consumption of print to make Bible study groups the centerpiece of an ever more intensive practice of reading and scholarship.…”