Front-page illustrations and political powers in Early Modern Spanish journalism

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Culture & History Digital Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-29 DOI:10.3989/CHDJ.2021.012

Carmen Espejo-Cala, Francisco Baena Sánchez

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Abstract

This paper explores the representation of political powers in the front-page illustrations of Early Modern Spanish newspapers. The knowledge about Early Modern European journalism has undergone a remarkable development in recent decades: however, research on the form of the first newspapers is scarce. The paper presents a corpus of 162 news pamphlets and gazettes published in Seville between 1618 and 1635. An analysis follows considering the presence of engravings on the cover page and their classification. This insight leads to the conclusion that the image did not play a decisive role to draw the attention of readers, even in sensationalist news pamphlets. The illustration is used not to present the events narrated but to stress the genre of the print; about half of the corpus prints have a cover engraving that reproduces a coat of arms, associated with the monarchical power in two thirds of the news sheets: Spanish journalism experienced a growing officialization, prior to the appearance of the first official newspaper of the kingdom, Gazeta Nueva (1661). Also, a small group of news sheets with ecclesiastical or nobiliary coat of arms reveals the interest of local powers in the flourishing of the journalistic market

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西班牙近代早期新闻的头版插图与政治权力

本文探讨了政治权力在早期现代西班牙报纸头版插图中的表现。近几十年来，关于欧洲近代早期新闻的知识有了显著的发展：然而，对第一份报纸形式的研究却很少。本文介绍了1618年至1635年间在塞维利亚出版的162本新闻小册子和公报。下面对封面上的版画及其分类进行了分析。这一见解得出的结论是，即使在耸人听闻的新闻小册子中，这幅图像也没有在吸引读者注意力方面发挥决定性作用。插图不是用来呈现叙述的事件，而是用来强调印刷品的风格；大约一半的语料库印刷品都有一个封面雕刻，复制了三分之二的新闻报道中与君主权力有关的纹章：在西班牙第一份官方报纸《新报》（1661年）出现之前，西班牙新闻业经历了日益正式化。此外，一小群带有教会或贵族纹章的新闻报道揭示了地方权力对新闻市场繁荣的兴趣

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期刊介绍： Culture & History Digital Journal features original scientific articles and review articles, aimed to contribute to the methodological debate among historians and other scholars specialized in the fields of Human and Social Sciences, at an international level. Using an interdisciplinary and transversal approach, this Journal poses a renovation of the studies on the past, relating them and dialoguing with the present, breaking the traditional forms of thinking based on chronology, diachronic analysis, and the classical facts and forms of thinking based exclusively on textual and documental analysis. By doing so, this Journal aims to promote not only new subjects of History, but also new forms of addressing its knowledge.