stepsШаги/StepsShagi / Steps2412-94102782-1765The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationAYXFHEsteps-291Research ArticleСтатьиНовостные письма в тюдоровской Англии: корреспонденция Элизабет Тэлбот, графини ШрусбериNewsletters in Tudor England: The correspondence of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsburyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9630-5903СерегинаА. Ю.SereginaA. Yu.

Анна Юрьевна Серегина, доктор исторических наук ведущий научный сотрудник, отдел историко-теоретических исследований; научный сотрудник, отдел всеобщей истории

119334, Москва, Ленинский пр-т, д. 32а

197110, Санкт-Петербург, Петрозаводская ул., д. 7

Anna Yurievna Seregina, Dr. Sci. (History) Leading Researcher, Department of Historical and Theoretical Studies; Researcher, Department of World History

119334, Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 32a

197110, Saint Petersburg, Petrozavodskaya Str., 7

aseregina@mail.ruИнститут всеобщей истории РАН; Санкт-Петербургский институт истории РАНРоссияInstitute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation2025180620251121538Copyright © Серегина А.Ю., 20252025Серегина А.Ю.Seregina A.Y.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/291

Статья посвящена истории распространения новостей в раннее Новое время, а именно истории новостных писем (newsletters), предшественников газет, которые в XVI–XVII вв. информировали образованных европейцев о политических событиях. Вплоть до недавнего времени считалось, что интерес к новостным письмам был свойственен лишь мужчинам, поскольку именно они интересовались политическими известиями. Исследования женской эпистолярной культуры последнего десятилетия, однако, показали, что и женщины были в числе потребителей политических новостей. В статье анализируются новостные письма, обращенные к Элизабет Тэлбот, графине Шрусбери (1527–1608), переписка которой сохранилась лучше, чем корреспонденция других женщин тюдоровской Англии. Дошедшие до нас пять новостных писем, написанных для графини Хью Фицуильямом в 1569–1574 гг., содержали внешне- и внутриполитические новости. Анализ писем позволяет заключить, что в 1570-е годы в Англии основным форматом новостных писем были пока еще не обобщенные новостные бюллетени, а письма от клиента к патрону. Новости в них фокусировались на темах, интересовавших адресата, могли уточняться и детализироваться по его/ее запросу. Пример графини Шрусбери показывает, что женщины-аристократки интересовались теми же политическими сюжетами, что и мужчины их семей, и наравне с мужчинами были заказчиками, потребителями и распространителями политических новостей.

The article is focused on the history of news in Early Modern Europe, namely the history of newsletters — the predecessors of newspapers, which informed Europeans about current political affairs. Until quite recently it was widely accepted that only men read newsletters because they were interested in political events. In the last decade, however, studies of female epistolary culture have demonstrated that women also were part of the newsletters’ audience. The article presents an analysis of newsletters sent to Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1527–1608). Her correspondence is much better preserved than letter archives of any other woman of Tudor England. Five surviving newsletters from the Shrewsbury archive were addressed to the Countess by Hugh Fitzwilliam and written between 1569 and 1574. These letters contain domestic political news, as well as news from abroad. Analysis of the letters makes it possible to conclude that in the 1570s the news format available to Englishmen and Englishwomen was not yet a specialized news bulletin but newsletters sent from clients to patrons. In these letters, the news was focused on topics that were of interest to the patrons, and that could be explored in more detail on demand. The case of the Countess of Shrewsbury demonstrates that aristocratic women were interested in the same political topics as were the men of their families, and, like the men, ordered, consumed and disseminated the news.

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