RUMOUR, NEWS AND POPULAR POLITICAL OPINION IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART ENGLAND
RUMOUR, NEWS AND POPULAR POLITICAL OPINION IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART ENGLAND
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伊丽莎白时代和斯图亚特早期英格兰的谣言、新闻和流行政治观点
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10.1017/s0018246x97007346
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1997
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Adam Fox
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Adam Fox
本文探讨了16世纪末17世纪初英国下层社会中谣言和新闻的传播。它是通过分析法庭记录来做到这一点的，在这些记录中，人们被指控传播虚假报道或发表煽动性言论，这些记录现在保存在巡回审判档案或国家文件中。这些资料来源揭示了在全国范围内传播信息的通信网络，并阐明了口头、手稿和印刷媒体之间的关系。它们表明，在传播过程中，疯狂的故事是如何被煽动起来的，并被这一时期的政治不安全感所助长。与此同时，在一些非法的谈话中，对时事的更复杂的认识是显而易见的，这表明即使是卑微的人也参与了预见内战的争论。
This essay explores the circulation of rumour and news among those at the lower levels of society in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It does so through an analysis of the court records in which people were indicted for spreading false reports or speaking seditious words and which are now preserved in assize files or amid the state papers. These sources reveal the networks of communication by which information was disseminated nationwide and shed light upon the relationship between oral, manuscript and printed media. They show how wild stories could be whipped up in the act of transmission and were fuelled by the political insecurities of this period. At the same time a more sophisticated awareness of current affairs is evident in some illicit conversations which suggest that even humble people were participating in the arguments which anticipated the Civil War.