Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780367887612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Patrizia Delpiano

Opis

Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership to regulate the press and culture during a centu

Spis treści

Introduction

1. From the Spoken to the Written Word

2. The World of the Index   

3. Hunting for Books

4. In Pursuit of Public Opinion

Conclusion

O autorze

Patrizia Delpiano is professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin, Italy.