Abstract
'Reputation' became one of the buzz-words of the policy-makers of the Spanish Monarchy. The types of event reported in news pamphlets were for the most part those that would also be the occasion for public commemoration. Printers and booksellers were licensed by royal councils, book trade was policed by royal commissioners, and prosecutions were brought by royal officers rather than by local magistracies. The Fifth Lateran Council's 1515 decree on printed books, the basis of ecclesiastical censorship and model for early secular legislation, was expressly intended to prevent abuse of the new technology, with its beneficial possibilities for edification, education and missionary activity. Charles V's enactments had increasingly taken control of book trade from local magistrates and entrusted it to royal councils and officers. The diaspora of Antwerp's merchants to Holland, Germany, England and elsewhere, although diminishing the concentration of capital, created an extensive network of contacts for international trade.Keywords: Antwerp; book trade; Spanish Monarchy; urban context
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