TY  - JOUR
A1  - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo
T1  - Mediums of communication and the development of an European constitutional discourse at the dawn of the nineteenth century
JF  - Ayer : revista de historia contemporánea
N2  - In this article, entangled media history is presented as an approach to combine recent methodological developments towards an international turn in intellectual history on the one hand with the social history of ideas on the other. By concentrating on press networks, publishers, and media formats the various processes of constitutionalization and nationalization in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period can be reconstructed as part of an emerging European public sphere. This is exemplified by the example of the political discourse of that time in Germany. In a first step, the international networks around the two most important German publishers, Johann Friedrich Cotta and Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, are reconstructed. In the second part, the crucial role of translations and adaptations of political articles in two decisive media formats of the political discourse, the historical-political journals and the "Conversationslexikon" is examined. And finally in a third step, the specific significance of the reception of the Spanish revolution of the "trienio liberal" for the development of a constitutional vocabulary in Germany is sketched.
KW  - Media History
KW  - Intellectual History
KW  - History of Political Thought
KW  - History of Revolutions
KW  - Press History
KW  - transformations of the public sphere
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 1134-2277
IS  - 94
SP  - 49
EP  - 69
PB  - Asociación de Historia Contemporánea
CY  - Madrid
ER  -