Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Print Culture and Communication in the Stuart World book cover

1st Edition

Print Culture and Communication in the Stuart World

Edited By Kirsteen M MacKenzie Copyright 2027
644 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

644 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a broad introduction to print culture and communication in the Stuart world, exploring the emergence of the anglophone global publishing industry in the early modern period and its interaction with various forms of communication in the Stuart dominions. The volume begins by providing comprehensive and accessible guidance on how to find and use major online digital resources on... Read more

Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Boxes and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Abbreviations

Introduction Kirsteen M MacKenzie

Part 1: Sources of Communication in the Stuart World
1. Finding and Using Printed Material from the Stuart Era Kirsteen M MacKenzie
2. Non-Printed Forms of Communication in the Stuart World Kirsteen M MacKenzie


Part 2: Composition to Dissemination: The Mechanics of Print and Communication
(A) Existing Forms of Communication and Print
3. Print Letters and Communication Gary Schnider
4. Seventeenth-Century British Broadside Ballads Patricia Fumerton
5. Sermons in Manuscript and Print: Why the Medium is the Message Anne James and Jeanne Shami
6. Proclamations Laura Doak

(B) Editing and Distribution of Printed Material
7. Editorial Practice in the Stuart World 1603-1707 Jocelyn Hargrave
8. Images and the Stuart Printing Press Katie Sisneros
9. The English Book Trade Ian Gadd
10. The Business and the Nature of the Book Trade in Stuart Ireland Toby Barnard
11. Scottish Printers and the Scottish Book Trade Kelsey Jackson Williams

(C) Non Anglophone Britain and Ireland
12. Wales, Print and Communication c.1603-1718 Lloyd Bowen
13. The Early Modern Irish Manuscript and Book Tradition Eamonn O’ Ciardha
14. Geographical and Linguistic Limitations of Stuart Print Culture: The case of Gaelic Scotland Hugh Cheape


(D) Reading in Stuart Britain and Ireland
15. Readers in Scotland: Marginalia and the Life of the Book Ryoko Harikae
16. Early Modern Women and the Culture of Print Jane Stevenson
17. Reading in Stuart Ireland Raymond Gillespie

Part 3: Case Studies
18. Case Study 1 King James VI and I as a Political Writer Glenn Burgess
19. Case Study 2 The Imprint of Plantation: Archipelagic Ulster 1608-1698 Willy Maley
20. Case Study 3 The Thirty Years War and British Print Culture Kirsty Rolfe
21. Case Study 4 Charles I: Court Rituals and the Projection of Kingly Authority Nile Blunt
22. Case Study 5 The Art of the Message and the Origins of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Kirsteen M MacKenzie
23. Case Study 6 The 1641 Irish Rebellion and Print in Ireland and the Wider World, 1641-1649 Eamon Darcy
24. Case Study 7 Caricaturing the Oxford Incendiaries: Nedham, Mercurius Britanicus and the Shaping of News during the Civil Wars Kirsteen M MacKenzie
25. Case Study 8 ‘Upon Appleton House’: Andrew Marvell and Perspectives of Print Culture of the 1640s Jennifer L Andersen
26. Case Study 9 Oliver Cromwell: The Crown, Propaganda, and the Printed Word Jonathan Fitzgibbons
27. Case Study 10 The Royalist Printing Press in the Restoration Erin Peters
28. Case Study 11 Dissent, Print and Toleration in the Era of James II, 1685-89 Gary S. De Krey
29. Case Study 12 Declaring His Reasons: William III and the Centrality of Print to the Glorious Revolution Tony Claydon
30. Case Study 13 The Darien Expeditions and Print Culture Catherine Armstrong

Part 4: Exiled Communities and Colonies
31. Irish Printing on the European Continent John Jerimiah Cronin
32. Literacy and Print Culture in Anglo-America Abram Van Engen

Conclusion: Learning Outcomes Kirsteen M MacKenzie

Glossary
Timeline
Social Media Directory
Index

Biography

Kirsteen M MacKenzie is an academic historian. Her areas of interest are British and Irish history from 1603-1707.  Her academic research mainly focuses on the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 but she also has wider research interests in the Jacobites and Louis XIV. Dr MacKenzie received a PhD in history from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Her first monograph The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union 1643-1663 was published by Routledge in 2017. Her work has also been published in various journals and magazines including, International Review of Scottish Studies, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods and History Scotland. Dr MacKenzie is a qualified higher education teacher obtaining her PGCertHE in 2014. She went on to teach at the Universities of Dundee and Aberdeen before establishing her own business History Gateway Limited.   

Add to Cart