Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 September 2005
- ISBN 9780199280735
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 242x163x23 mm
- Weight 644 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
Griffin's study reveals the virtually unknown lives of the men who worked in the sixteenth-century presses. Using the papers of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, he provides insights into popular culture and religion; the history of printing, reading, and writing; the Inquisition; and the double lives led by lower-class Protestants living within a vigilant Catholic society.
MoreLong description:
Although the history of the book is a booming area of research, the journeymen who printed books in the sixteenth century have remained shadowy figures because they were not thought to have left any significant traces in the archives. Clive Griffin, however, uses Inquisitional documents from Spain and Portugal to reveal a clandestine network of Protestant-minded immigrant journeymen who were arrested by the Holy Office in Spain and Portugal in the 1560s and 1570s at a time of international crisis. A startlingly clear portrait of these humble men (and occasionally women) emerges allowing the reconstruction of what Namier deemed one of history's greatest challenges: 'the biographies of ordinary men'. We learn of their geographical and social origins, educational and professional training, travels, careers, standard of living, violent behaviour, and even their attitudes, beliefs, and ambitions.
In the course of this study, many other subjects are addressed, among them: popular culture and religion; the history of skilled labour, the history of the book, and of reading and writing; the Inquisition; foreign and itinerant workers and the xenophobia they encountered; and the 'double lives' of lower-class Protestants living within a uniquely vigilant Catholic society.
This is an important contribution to the history of intolerance and of printing-shop practice in Spain.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Denunciation, Flight and Arrest
Proofing the Printers
Foreign Printing-workers in Spain
Three Young Men
Two Settled Printers
The Presses
Customs and Attitudes
Beliefs
The End
Bibliography
Index
