itinerant printing

Itinerant printers who travelled from patron to patron and from town to town were typical characters of the time. Gál Huszár moved to Magyaróvár, Kassa and Debrecen and Hoffhalter Raphael and his son who printed Péter Bornemissza's Electra moved their printing house all the way from Poland and arrived to Debrecen via Vienna then Zurich and finally to Transylvania. Demands expressed by the radical movements of the Reformation were reflected in their agility. Whenever they felt it was time to make a move they acted upon it; and settled where they could find peace for a while: they were always one step ahead of their prosecutors.

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