List of Maps and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter One Commerce, Books, and Decrees -- Communications and the Merchants' Domain -- Commercial Typography-Paris, Antwerp, and Paternoster Row -- Mercantile Networks and Printing-Germany and Beyond -- Jurisdictions and Censorship-The Empire and the Baltic region -- Heresies and Institutional Response-France, the Low Countries, and England -- Chapter Two Bonfires and Threatening Words -- Penance at Paul's Cross -- Steelyard Merchants and their Books -- Commercial Contacts and the Tides of Reform -- A Surreptitious Trade? -- Brokers of Ideas -- Chapter Three Diplomacy and Espionage -- A Town Marvellously Corrupt -- Vernacular Scriptures and Scurrilous Propaganda -- Fugitives and Entrepreneurs -- Ambassador Hackett and the Lords of Antwerp -- Timely Intelligence and Doubtful Resolve -- Chapter Four Subversion and Prosecution -- Contraband, Scholars, and Christian Brethren -- Young Men of Virtue and Good Letters -- Law, Judgement, and Punishment -- Circles of Diffusion -- Coercion and Betrayal -- Exiles -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Books and Pamphlets -- Index of Persons -- General Index.