Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively neglected, even by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British printed images to 1700, it offers a series of e
Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively neglected, even by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British printed images to 1700, it offers a series of e
Michael Hunter is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK
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Contents: Introduction, Michael Hunter; Part 1 Printed Images and the Reformation: Symbols of conversion: proprieties of the page in Reformation England, Margaret Aston; Censorship and self-censorship in late 16th-century English book illustration, Richard L. Williams; Guides to Godliness from print to plaster, Tara Hamling; 'Like fragments of a shipwreck': printed images and religious antiquarianism in early modern England, Alexandra Walsham. Part 2 Printed Images in Science and Cartography: Page techne: interpreting diagrams in early modern English 'how-to' books, Lori Anne Ferrell; Gesner, Topsell and the purposes of pictures in early modern natural histories, Katherine Acheson; Hollar's prospects and maps of London, Simon Turner; The theory of the impression according to Robert Hooke, Matthew Hunter. Part 3 Printed Images and Politics: The Common Weales Canker Wormes or the Locusts of Both Church and State: emblematic identities in a late Jacobean print, Malcolm Jones; Buckingham engraved: politics, print images and the royal favourite in the 1620s, Alastair Bellany; The Devil's Bloodhound: Roger L'Estrange caricatured, Helen Pierce; Decoding the Leviathan: doing the history of ideas through images 1651-1714, Justin Champion. Part 4 Printed Images and Aspects of Late 17th-Century English Culture: Noble or commercial? The early history of mezzotint in Britain, Ben Thomas; Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebank and White: the engraved portrait in late 17th-century Britain, David Alexander; 'Paper tapestry' and 'wooden pictures': printed decoration in the domestic interior before 1700, Gill Saunders; Top knots and lower sorts: print and promiscuous consumption in the 1690s, Angela McShane and Clare Backhouse; Index.
Contents: Introduction, Michael Hunter; Part 1 Printed Images and the Reformation: Symbols of conversion: proprieties of the page in Reformation England, Margaret Aston; Censorship and self-censorship in late 16th-century English book illustration, Richard L. Williams; Guides to Godliness from print to plaster, Tara Hamling; 'Like fragments of a shipwreck': printed images and religious antiquarianism in early modern England, Alexandra Walsham. Part 2 Printed Images in Science and Cartography: Page techne: interpreting diagrams in early modern English 'how-to' books, Lori Anne Ferrell; Gesner, Topsell and the purposes of pictures in early modern natural histories, Katherine Acheson; Hollar's prospects and maps of London, Simon Turner; The theory of the impression according to Robert Hooke, Matthew Hunter. Part 3 Printed Images and Politics: The Common Weales Canker Wormes or the Locusts of Both Church and State: emblematic identities in a late Jacobean print, Malcolm Jones; Buckingham engraved: politics, print images and the royal favourite in the 1620s, Alastair Bellany; The Devil's Bloodhound: Roger L'Estrange caricatured, Helen Pierce; Decoding the Leviathan: doing the history of ideas through images 1651-1714, Justin Champion. Part 4 Printed Images and Aspects of Late 17th-Century English Culture: Noble or commercial? The early history of mezzotint in Britain, Ben Thomas; Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebank and White: the engraved portrait in late 17th-century Britain, David Alexander; 'Paper tapestry' and 'wooden pictures': printed decoration in the domestic interior before 1700, Gill Saunders; Top knots and lower sorts: print and promiscuous consumption in the 1690s, Angela McShane and Clare Backhouse; Index.
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