Article: Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain.(Book review)

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

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 320 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $120. ISBN: 0-19-928073-8.

Clive Griffin, who is well known for his meticulous studies of the printing industry in sixteenth-century Spain, has put the Holy Office's records to an entirely new use. Historians of the printing revolution have long been hampered by the lack of documentation concerning the lower echelons of workers who manned Europe's presses. Griffin realized that Spain's Inquisition archives might be used to reconstruct the largely undocumented lives of ...

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