The present study attempts to bring together the Mediterranean and the Dutch news communities by examining Mediterranean news in the Dutch press through Abraham Casteleyn's "Haarlemse Courant" in...Show moreThe present study attempts to bring together the Mediterranean and the Dutch news communities by examining Mediterranean news in the Dutch press through Abraham Casteleyn's "Haarlemse Courant" in the decade 1660-1669. Its main argument is that Mediterranean news suited the needs of seventeenth-century news publishers in an exceptional way: "longue durée" Mediterranean realities such as corsair activity along the North African Coast provided a seemingly never-ending flow of news stories which helped to nourish the nascent "periodicity" of the early modern publishing business.Show less
