Abstract
This
lecture addresses the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami as a means to explore
the dissemination of international news to the Dutch Republic in the
mid-eighteenth century. It will deal with the kind of news about the earthquake
that reached the Netherlands. Main questions are: How did Dutch editors process
the events in their news media, and which sources did they use? How did Dutch
news media react to the Lisbon earthquake that had happened far away and weeks
or months before they could read about them? In other words, what did
‘topicality’ mean for these media and their readers? In short, this lecture
elaborates for eighteenth-century news media the idea of contemporaneity, a
concept defined by Brendan Dooley as “the perception, shared by a number of
human beings, of experiencing a particular event at more or less the same
time.” Furthermore, the Lisbon case
offers insight into the working of European news networks, in this case
stretching from the southwestern part of Europe to the Dutch Republic.
Biographical information
Dr. Joop W. Koopmans is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of
Groningen, the Netherlands (https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.w.koopmans/). In 1990, he obtained his doctorate at the same university for his
research about the organization of the States of Holland during the Dutch
Revolt against King Philip II of Spain His present field of interest is the
history of early modern media and politics in Europe. Recently he published a
collection of his articles in the volume Early
Modern Media and the News in Europe: Perspectives from the Dutch Angle. He
is also the author of the Historical
Dictionary of the Netherlands (3rd edition, 2015) and co-editor of the Nieuwe Encyclopedie van Fryslân (2016). Until
2017, he was chair of the Flemish-Dutch Society for Early Modern History
(VNVNG) and chair of the editorial board of the annual De Vrije Fries (existing since 1839), both for several years.
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