Front cover image for Cheap print and popular piety : 1550-1640

Cheap print and popular piety : 1550-1640

Tessa Watt
This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.
Print Book, English, 1991
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991
xix, 370 s. : diagram, faks., musiknoter, table.
9780521382557, 0521382556
185320139
Introduction; Part I. The Broadside Ballad: 1. Small and popular music; 2. A Godly ballad to a Godly tune; 3. The 1642 Stock; Part II. The Broadside Picture: 4. Idols in the frontispiece; 5. Stories for walls; 6. Godly tables for good householders; Part III. The Chapbook: 7. The development of the chapbook trade; 8. Penny books and marketplace theology; Conclusion.