Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
"Cambridge University Press deserves our thanks for publishing a monograph that offers such a wealth of bibliographical detail."   American Historical Review"...remarkably creative, exhaustively researched, and consistently engaging study."   The Catholic Historical Review"This important book by Tessa Watt looks at the impact of the Reformation and the print 'revolution' on popular religious belief in England between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares produced in London...The end result is a rich and well-researched monograph, compellingly argued, that offers a powerful challenge to many commonly held assumptions about the nature of popular religiosity during this period."   Albion"This is an effective book, not least for its retrieval of often-forgotten sources and its complication of the distinction between godly and ungodly spheres of activity."   David Cressy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"...impressive study of the popular religious literature of the 'long' Reformation, from Edward VI's reign to the eve of the civil war...."   D.R. Woolf, Canadian Journal of History"...an extraordinarily competent and valuable addition to the growing corpus of work on the culture of early modern England."   Phyllis Mack, Journal of Modern History"It is an important addition to the history of publishing but also offers compelling evidence for revisionist theories about cultural change in the early-modern period."   Publishing Research Quarterly