Constructing the pandemic: the Italian plague in early modern Iberian news discourse (1629–1631)
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- dc.contributor.author Díaz Noci, Javier
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-21T14:49:56Z
- dc.date.available 2025-11-21T14:49:56Z
- dc.date.issued 2025-11
- dc.description.abstract From 1629 to 1631, during the Thirty Years’ War, a severe plague began in Northern Italy and rapidly spread across the Continent. The pandemic’s repercussions soon reached the Iberian Peninsula, where the news was documented and circulated via various media, including reports and avvisi. News concerning this so-called Italian plague was published in the main news centres of the Spanish kingdoms, such as Seville, Lisbon, and Madrid. Drawing upon microhistory—specifically Filippo de Vivo’s model (Past and Present, 2019)—and techniques related to news discourse and content analysis (see Soto, Díaz Noci and Espejo-Cala, 2020), this study aims to explain how news about pandemics was created and disseminated at the precise moment when journalism was taking shape as a craft in Early Modern Europe.
- dc.identifier.citation Díaz-Noci J. Constructing the pandemic: the Italian plague in early modern Iberian news discourse (1629–1631). Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Comunicació; 2025. 34 p.
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71961
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.rights © Javier Díaz-Noci. November, 2025. All rights reserved with the author This work is distributed under this Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- dc.subject.keyword Early modern history
- dc.subject.keyword Journalism history
- dc.subject.keyword Pandemics
- dc.subject.keyword News discourse analysis
- dc.title Constructing the pandemic: the Italian plague in early modern Iberian news discourse (1629–1631)
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