This edited volume offers a collection of essays which utilise innovative lines of research and enquiry in the context of cheap/popular print, demonstrating the benefits of a comparative approach, the possibilities offered by the use of new digital tools, and the impact of an intermedial approach on studying the circulation and adaptation of popular images.

Jeroen Salman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. His main research interests include early modern book history, popular culture and the history of science. Previous co-edited publications include Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820 (2013), Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (Palgrave, 2017) and Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures: Popular Print in Europe (1450–1900) (2019).

Juan Gomis is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Valencia, Spain. His research focuses on popular print culture in Early Modern Europe. He has studied one of the most widespread popular genres in Spain, the so-called “Literatura de Cordel”, from multiple perspectives: cultural representations (religious, political, gender), material aspects of the printings (the “pliegos sueltos”), production and dissemination, and usages and readers. He has also made significant contributions in order to understand this phenomenon from a transnational, European perspective.