Perspectives on European Popular Print and Images

Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. His main research interests include early modern book history, popular culture and the history of science. Previous co-edited publications include Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820 (2013), Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (Palgrave, 2017) and Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures. Popular Print in Europe (1450–1900) (2019).Juan Gomis is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Valencia, Spain. His research focuses on popular print culture in Early Modern Europe. He has studied one of the most widespread popular genres in Spain, the so-called “Literatura de Cordel”, from multiple perspectives: cultural representations (religious, political, gender), material aspects of the printings (the “pliegos sueltos”), production and dissemination, and usages and readers. He has also made significant contributions in order to understand this phenomenon from a transnational, European perspective.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: exploring new views on popular visual culture.- Chapter 2: Visual voids: Format variations in printed songs, in Scandinavia and beyond.-Chapter 3: Praying in Church from Cards: Transcultural Crossing, Intermediality and Reception.- Chapter 4: Digital Tools for the Study of Cheap Print's Images: a Spanish Case.- Chapter 5:Healing with estampas: the use of images and popular literature in canonisation processes during the 17th and 18th century.- Chapter 6: Title page satire: popular jestbooks in Poland and their playful paratexts of the front matter (1600–1700).- Chapter 7: Learning from the Shepherds: Visualising Ideals of Accessible and Reliable Knowledge in ‘Calendars of Shepherds’.- Chapter 8: A Journey through Folk Imagina4on: A Computer-assisted Study of Woodcuts Transmission.- Chapter 9: How popular visual culture has inspired modernist painting.- Chapter 10: Spanish Chapbooks 1700-1900 in Cambridge University Library: dating ephemeral literature.- Chapter 11: "Mitigar la justa ira de Dios": the presence of devotional images in the news sheets on the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake.