Broadsheets : Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print.

Intro -- Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Broadsheets: Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print. Typology and Typography -- 2 Early Modern Broadsheets between Archives and Libraries: Toward a Possible Integration -- Part 2: Surveys -- 3 A Survey of Printed Spanish Broadsheets, 1472-1700 -- 4 Fifty Thousand Veronicas. Print Runs of Broadsheets in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries -- 5 Reconstructing Broadsheet Production in Reformation Wittenberg -- Part 3: Official Print -- 6 In the Name of God: Governance, Public Order and Theocracy in the Broadsheets of the Stamperia Camerale of Rome -- 7 Bread and Fairs: Broadsheet Printing for the Municipality of Lyon, 1497-1570 -- 8 Collections of Italian Broadsheets in French Libraries -- 9 Commerce and Good Governance: The Broadsheet Ordinances in the Van der Meulen Archive -- 10 "Everyone has hereby been warned." The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic -- Part 4: Politics -- 11 Broadsheets Testing Moderation in the Nascent Dutch Revolt -- 12 The King is Dead. German Broadsheets Printed on the Death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I -- 13 Johann Georg Schleder (1597-1685), Journalist, Chronicler, and Broadsheet Author -- Part 5: Broadsheets in the Academic World -- 14 Function in Form: Single-Sheet Items and the Utility of Cheap Print in the Early Modern German University -- 15 Cheap Print and the Academic Market: The Printing of Dissertations in Sixteenth-Century Louvain -- 16 Advertising Medical Studies in Sixteenth-Century Basel: Function and Use of Academic Disputations -- Part 6: Broadsheets in the Marketplace.

17 German Music Broadsheets, 1500 to 1550: Production, Persuasion and Performance -- 18 The Lamentable Tale of Lost Ballads in England, 1557-1640 -- 19 Witchcraft Illustrated: The Crime of Witchcraft in Early Modern German News Broadsheets -- 20 Selling Books by Broadsheet: The Sales Catalogue of Marie du Flo, veuve de Charles Savreux, marchand-libraire -- Index -- Colour Plates.

A landmark study of single-sheet publishing during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge as both a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.

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