Arnout Coninx

Arnout Coninx
Born 1548
Died 1617
Occupation printer
Years active 1579–1617
Era handpress
Notable work De CL Psalmen Davids, in dichte ghestelt door Willem van Haecht (1579)
De poeticsche werken van myn heer vander Noot (1591)
Religion Catholic (from 1590)
Criminal charge Unlicensed printing (1586); selling forbidden books (1591)[1]

Arnout Coninx (1548–1617) was a printer and bookseller in the city of Antwerp from 1579 until his death in 1617. In 1586 he was fined for unlicensed printing, and in 1591 he was investigated for selling forbidden books. When the city of Antwerp had been reconquered for Philip II of Spain in 1585, Protestants had been given four years to settle their affairs and leave or be reconciled to the Catholic Church. Coninx waited until 1590, after the deadline had passed, to register his conversion to Catholicism.[2]

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References

  1. Anne Rouzet, Dictionnaire des imprimeurs, libraires et éditeurs des XVe et XVIe siècles dans les limites géographiques de la Belge actuelle (Nieuwkoop, 1975), pp. 43–44.
  2. Alfons K. L. Thijs, Van Geuzenstad tot katholiek bolwerk: Maatschappelijke betekenis van de kerk in contrareformatorisch Antwerpen (Antwerp, 1990), pp. 102, 243n.
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