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    This book contains 17 chapters that examine the role and interpretation of printed images in early modern Britain from the Reformation period to the late 17th century. The chapters are divided into sections focusing on printed images related to religion, science/cartography, politics, and late 17th century English culture. The contributors explore how printed images were used for religious instruction, censorship, natural histories, maps, portraits, and domestic decoration. Overall, the book analyzes how printed images conveyed and shaped ideas during the early modern period in Britain.

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    This book contains 17 chapters that examine the role and interpretation of printed images in early modern Britain from the Reformation period to the late 17th century. The chapters are divided into sections focusing on printed images related to religion, science/cartography, politics, and late 17th century English culture. The contributors explore how printed images were used for religious instruction, censorship, natural histories, maps, portraits, and domestic decoration. Overall, the book analyzes how printed images conveyed and shaped ideas during the early modern period in Britain.

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    Printed Images in Early

    Modern Britain
    Essays in Interpretation

    Edited by Michael Hunter


    Birkbeck, University of London, UK

    ASHGATE
    Contents

    Acknowledgements vii
    List of Contributors ix
    list of Abbreviations xiii
    List of Illustrations xv

    1 Introduction
    . Michael Hunter 1

    Printed Images and the Reformation

    2 Symbols of Conversion: Proprieties of the Page in Reformation


    England
    Margaret Aston 23

    3 Censorship and Self-censorship in Late Sixteenth-century


    English Book Illustration
    Richard L. Williams 43

    4 Guides to Godliness: From Print to Plaster


    Tara Hamling 65

    5 'Like Fragments of a Shipwreck': Printed Images and


    Religious Antiquarianism in Early Modern England
    Alexandra Walsham 87

    Printed Images in Science and Cartography

    6 Page Techne: Interpreting Diagrams in Early Modern English


    'How-to' Books
    Lori Anne Ferrell 113

    7 Gesner, Topsell, and the Purposes of Pictures in Early Modern


    Natural Histories
    Katherine Acheson 127
    vi PRINTED IMAGES IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN

    8 Hollar's Prospects and Maps of London


    Simon Turner 145

    9 The Theory of the Impression According to Robert Hooke


    Matthew Hunter 167

    Printed Images and Politics

    10 The Common Weales Canker Wormes, or the Locvsts Both of


    Chvrch, and States: Emblematic Identities in a Late Jacobean
    Print
    Malcolm Jones 193

    11 Buckingham Engraved: Politics, Print Images and the Royal


    Favourite in the 1620s
    Alastair Bellany 215

    12 The Devil's Bloodhound: Roger L'Estrange Caricatured


    Helen Pierce 237

    13 Decoding the Leviathan: Doing the History of Ideas through


    Images, 1651-1714
    Justin Champion 255

    Printed Images and Aspects of Late Seventeenth-century


    English Culture

    14 Noble or Commercial? The Early History of Mezzotint in


    Britain
    Ben Thomas 279

    15 Faithorne, Loggan, Vandrebanc and White: The Engraved


    Portrait in Late Seventeenth-century Britain
    David Alexander 297

    16 'Paper Tapestry' and 'Wooden Pictures': Printed Decoration


    in the Domestic Interior before 1700
    Gill Saunders 317

    17 Top Knots and Lower Sorts: Print and Promiscuous


    Consumption in the 1690s
    Angela McShane and Clare Backhouse 337

    Index 359

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