Christopher Plantin: Printing for the Reformation
In the early sixteenth century, printers from the Low Countries revealed themselves to be highly creative in the ways they found to print and distribute anonymously written Lutheran works. In the second half of the century as well, printing Protestant works remained a dangerous undertaking during th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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Trajecta
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 259-276 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBD Benelux countries KDD Protestant Church RH Evangelization; Christian media |
| Further subjects: | B
Niclaes, Hendrik
B Bible B Protestants B Plantin, Christopher B Reformation |
| Summary: | In the early sixteenth century, printers from the Low Countries revealed themselves to be highly creative in the ways they found to print and distribute anonymously written Lutheran works. In the second half of the century as well, printing Protestant works remained a dangerous undertaking during the rebellion against the Spanish king Philip II. During the first years after establishing himself as a printer in Antwerp, Christophe Plantin was active in printing works by Hendrik Niclaes as well as Protestant Bibles. On several occasions, he was called to account for printing Calvinist editions, while simultaneously printing Catholic books and even managing to become Philip II's 'archprinter! In later years as well, Plantin printed anti-Spanish editions either anonymously or under the name of another printer, and also used the same ways of hiding his identity that earlier printers had done. |
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| ISSN: | 2665-9484 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Trajecta
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