The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern EuropeAn epic history of the birth of news in Europe 'Highly ambitious and impressive a rich, multifaceted and thought provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel. This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in