Rumors in Transition: Uncertain Information in the Premodern Culture of News
“Flying Tales” of War Sometime in early 1523, the merchant Matthias Mulich (†1528) received a letter from his servant Matthias Scharpenberch. Mulich usually lived and worked in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck but was staying in Nuremberg at the time for family reasons. There, he regularly received letters that informed him about the situation in … Continue reading Rumors in Transition: Uncertain Information in the Premodern Culture of News
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