Preface
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Notes on Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Chronology
1. Introduction: the origins of popular print culture, Joad Raymond
Part one: Historical Contexts
2. England and Wales, Mike Braddick
3. Scotland, Hamish Mathison
4. Ireland, Jane Ohlmeyer
5. Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions, Tim Harris
6. The Development of the Book Trade in Britain, Joad Raymond
7. Printing, Learning and the Unlearned, Anna Bayman
8. Popular Literacy and Society, Heidi Hackel
9. Reading Strategies, Stephen Dobranski
10. Oral Culture and Popular Print, Julie Crawford
11. Manuscript Culture and Popular Print, Andrew McRae
12. Libel, Alastair Bellany
13. The Social Life of Books, William H. Sherman
Part two: Some International Comparisons
14. France and Spain, Roger Chartier
15. Italy, Ottavia Niccoli
16. The Netherlands, Margit Thofner
17. Germany, Alisha Rankin
Part three: Themes
18. Religion and Cheap Print, Peter Lake
19. Rhetoric, David Colclough
20. Political Argument, Markku Peltonen
21. Images, Representation, and Counter-Representation, Helen Pierce
22. Women and Print, Sara Mendelson
23. London, Mark Jenner
24. Parliament and the Press, Thomas Cogswell
25. War, Nicole Greenspan
Part four: Forms and Genres
26. Ballads and Broadsides, Angela McShane
27. Romance, Lori Newcomb
28. News, Joad Raymond
29. Science, Simon Schaffer
30. Popular Medical Writing, Mary Fissell
31. Almanacs and Prognostications, Lauren Kassell
32. Popular History, Peter Burke
33. Pamphlets, Jason Peacey
34. Chapbooks, Lori Newcomb
35. Sermons, Primers, and Prayer Books, Mary Morrissey
36. Popular Didactic Literature, Natasha Glaisyer
37. Playbooks, Zachary Lesser
Part five: Case Studies
38. 1535, Tracey Sowerby
39. 1553, Cathy Shrank
40. 1588-9, Jesse Lander
41. 1603, Matthew Woodcock
42. 1625, Thomas Cogswell
43. 1641, Jason McElligott
44. 1649, Martin Dzelzainis
45. 1660, Gerald MacLean
Bibliography