Broadsheets, Single-Sheet Publishing in the First Age of Print (Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word -)

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. 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 "This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry"--Provided by publisher 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