TY - JOUR
AU - Rogers, Ben
AB - SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY 169 Adam Fox, The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500–1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 pp. £75 hardback. ISBN: 9780198791294. The role that the printing press had in driving religious and social change after its invention in 1450 has long been established. In the years since Elizabeth Eisenstein’s pioneering work on print as an agent of change there have been an abundance of studies that have examined how print culture shaped the early modern period. Scotland has not escaped this pattern and various studies, notably Alastair Mann’s The Scottish Book Trade 1500 to 1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland (East Linton, 2000), have provided strong insights into how the printing industry emerged in Scotland and how it was regulated. However, these studies base most of their insights upon the larger books, pamphlets, and treatises that were produced for the wealthy and highly educated sections of Scottish society. This meant that the cheaper types of print that were consumed by most early modern Scots, like broadsheets, handbills, and booklets, have not received a substantial investigation. Adam Fox’s The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in 
TI - Adam Fox, The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500–1785
JO - Scottish Church History
DO - 10.3366/sch.2021.0056
DA - 2021-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/edinburgh-university-press/adam-fox-the-press-and-the-people-cheap-print-and-society-in-scotland-0Zqh8jaxMd
SP - 169
EP - 171
VL - 50
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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