Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain

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Clive Griffin (Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, Trinity College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Latin American Literature)

Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Clive Griffin (Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, Trinity College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Latin American Literature)

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Oxford University Press
01 August 2005

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Printing & reprographic technology

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.

By: Clive Griffin (Fellow and Tutor in Spanish Trinity College Oxford and Lecturer in Latin American Literature)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199280735
ISBN 10: 0199280738
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 01 August 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clive Griffin is Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, Trinity College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Latin American Literature, Oxford University. In 2001 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Hispanic Society of America.

Reviews for Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain

This is an important contribution to the history of intolerance and of printing-shop practice in Spain. Barry Taylor The Library This is a very carefully researched piece of scholarship that opens up important new horizons on artisanship and marginality in early modern Spain; it deserves wide dissemination. Helen Rawlings, EHR 494 ...a major and exciting contribution tot he burgeoning field of the history of the book ... provides a highly differentiated and rare perspective from below during a period of radical religious, economic, and political change in European history. Reviews in History ...a complex and richly layered vignette of sixteenth-century life...a wonderful book: meticulous, insightful and penetrating; the best sort of archival scholarship. Andrew Pettegree, TLS Clive Griffin has woven a rich and fascinating study...a book of many profound insights and many surprises... Andrew Pettegree, TLS