Cheap Print and Popular Culture, 1550-1750.

Peter Burke's influential term 'Popular Culture' has been the subject of much debate and criticism, but has recently resurfaced, often combined with (and replaced by) the concept of cheap print. Contributors to the workshop 'Cheap Print and Popular Culture' will think about the category of 'the popular' and what it means in relation to the development of the medium of print in the early modern period. Was there a popular print culture in this period? Should it  be limited only to ballads and broadsides? Is 'the popular' always an elite creation, at best consumed by 'the people'? These are issues that will be explored in this workshop.

The Tree House, Berrick Saul Building

2.15 - 2.30 pm

Welcome and Coffee/Tea

2.30 -3.30 pm

Nick Moon (York), Who may fart in front of a King?: Sir Andrew Flammock and 'King-Commoner Encounter' Ballads.  

Abi Shinn (St Andrews), Spenser and Cheap Print.

3.45 - 4.45 pm

Simon Davies (Sussex), Witchcraft in Cheap Print - how 'popular' was it?

Lena Liapi (York), 'To all gentlemen, merchants, apprentises, farmers and plain countrimen': rogue pamphlets and their audience.

Seminar Room BS/008

4.45 - 5.00 pm

Coffee/Tea

5.00 - 6.30 pm

Angela McShane (V&A/RCA History of Design), Plenary Lecture: Nasty, Brutish and Short': Cheap Print and the Scholar of Early Modern England'.