Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I People; 1 Religion Inside Out: Dutch House Churches and the Making of Publics in the Dutch Republic; 2 Emerging Publics of Religious Reform in the 1530s: The Affair of the Placards and the Publication of Antoine de Marcourt's Livre des marchans; 3 Academies, Circles, "Salons," and the Emergence of the Premodern "Literary Public Sphere" in Sixteenth-Century France; 4 Pietro Aretino, Thomas Nashe, and Early Modern Rhetorics of Public Address; Part II Things
Summary
Offers a look at how people, things, and fresh forms of knowledge created 'publics' in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society