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Libels, Popular Literacy and Public Opinion in Early Modern England

Pauline Croft
- 01 Oct 1995 - 
- Vol. 68, Iss: 167, pp 266-285
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The Structural Transformation of Print in Late Elizabethan England

TL;DR: A thin description of early modern literature could characterize it simply as extremely personal in nature as discussed by the authors, and it is now usual to evaluate literary works of this period in relationship to the self; "personal" in criticism concerned with the self typically refers to a new interest in subjectivity and inwardness.
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Unclasping the book? Post-Reformation English Catholicism and the vernacular Bible

TL;DR: In 1589, Goldesborowe, an outspoken recusant who christened his children "in corners" and openly affirmed that all Protestant ministers were knaves, had maliciously defaced an English Bible in three distinct places.
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Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution

TL;DR: In this article, the ownership of cheap print and the accessibility of print are discussed and a discussion of parliament and its problems is presented, with a focus on printing, mass mobilisation and protest.
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Prophetic rhetoric in the early Stuart period

TL;DR: A study of political prophecy in England in a period delimited by the accession of King James I (1603) and the end of the Interregnum (1660) can be found in this paper.
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Elizabethan Satire and the Bishops' Ban of 1599

TL;DR: In this article it was stated that any booke of the nature of the argument expressed heretofore expressed shalbe broughte unto yow under the hands of the Lord Archbisshop of Canterburye or the Lord Bishop of London yet the said booke shall not bee printed untill the master or wardens have acquainted the said lord Archbishop, or Lord Bishop with the same, to knowe whether it be theire hand or no.
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