News invention. How the world learned about itself

The book of a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, a recognized writer, specializing in the Renaissance era, Andrew Pettigrey first published in 2015 and was enthusiastically met by critics and American media. The New Yorker magazine called it “revealing history”, and the literary critic Adam Kirsch noted that the book is “an outstanding preface to the past that helps to understand our future.”
The author covers a period of almost four centuries from the printed era to 1800 years, from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, examining in detail the instinct of people to search for news and the desire to be informed. The reader opens with a fascinating panorama of centuries with a truly multi -muddy exchange that has absorbed all the available means of news distribution - ̶ conversations and rumors, civil ceremonies and celebrations, church sermons and proclamations in squares, and with the onset of the printed era ̶̶- pamphlets, ballads, newspapers and a newspaper and leaflets