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

Copyright

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