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Short, cheap pamphlets were a common sight in early modern England. This work examines how different sections of 16th- and early-17th-century England - Protestant, Puritan and Catholic, the press and the popular stage - sought to enlist these pamphlets for their own purposes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #959214 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

Euan Cameron, Times Literary Supplement, 5 July 2002
'Peter Lake is an exceptional scholar, with a vast array of ideas as well as erudition...a great achievement'

Customer Reviews

Tabloid press and religion in the post-reformation era.
Professor Peter Lake and Doctor Michael Questier have brought to life the interaction between popular media and serious religious ideas in post-reformation England.

It would be wrong to think that the existence of a largely illiterate population was a barrier to the dissemination of dogma and socio-political propoganda. The authors brilliantly show how visual means of communication were bent to the political and religious agenda (if indeed there was a difference) of ruling and dissident parties. Employing woodcuts flanked by a few recognisable but pungent words, a vast industry of persuasion grew up and fought very public battles through these ingenious and highly original proxies.

The delight in this book is the revelation of how
original and creative minds equal to the best of today's modern advertising industry used their genius to influence the spiritual soul of the nation.