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

Contents: 

Part 1. Introduction 

• Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print: typology and typography / Andrew Pettegree
• Early modern broadsheets between archives and libraries: toward a possible integration / Flavia Bruni 

Part 2. Surveys 

• A survey of printed Spanish broadsheets, 1472-1700 / Alexander S. Wilkinson, Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz
• Fifty thousand Veronicas: print runs of broadsheets in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Falk Eisermann
• Reconstructing broadsheet production in Reformation Wittenberg / Drew Thomas 

Part 3. Official print 

• In the name of God: governance, public order and theocracy in the broadsheets of the Stamperia Camerale of Rome / Flavia Bruni
• Bread and fairs: broadsheet printing for the municipality of Lyon, 1497-1570 / Jamie Cumby
• Collections of Italian broadsheets in French libraries / Shanti Graheli
• Commerce and good governance: the broadsheet ordinances in the Van der Meulen Archive / Nina Lamal  
• "Everyone has hereby been warned": the structure and typography of broadsheet ordinances and the communication of governance in the early seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Arthur der Weduwen 

Part 4. Politics 

• Broadsheets testing moderation in the nascent Dutch revolt / Johan Verberckmoes and Violet Soen
• The king is dead: German broadsheets printed on the death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I / Jan Hillgaertner
• Johann Georg Schleder (1597-1685): journalist, chronicler, and broadsheet author / John Roger Paas 

Part 5. Broadsheets in the academic world 

• Function in form: single-sheet items and the utility of cheap print in the early modern German university / Richard Kirwan
• Cheap print and the academic market: the printing of dissertations in sixteenth-century Louvain / Malcolm Walsby
• Advertising medical studies in sixteenth-century Basel: function and use of academic disputations / Saskia Limbach 

Part 6. Broadsheets in the marketplace 

• German music broadsheets, 1500 to 1550: production, persuasion and performance / Amelie Roper
• The lamentable tale of lost ballads in England, 1557-1640 / Alexandra Hill
• Witchcraft illustrated: the crime of witchcraft in early modern German news broadsheets / Abaigeal Warfield
• Selling books by broadsheet: the sales catalogue of Marie du Flo, veuve de Charles Savreux, Marchand-Libraire / Graeme Kemp