Disciplining History: Censorship, Theory and Historical Discourse in Early Modern Spain

ISBN-13: 9781472459121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Opis

Disciplining History sets out to study the development of historiography as an intellectual discipline in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, taking into account the role that the censorship of historical writing played in the process during this period. Historians of modern historiography have traditionally argued that the prohibition, expurgation, correction and control of historiography on the part of civil and ecclesiastical censors hindered the dissemination of historical knowledge, prejudiced its quality and slowed the development and modernization of the discipline. This book reconsiders this dominant view of the relations between censorship and historiography and explores the ways in which the discourse of censorship may also have conditioned the way in which history was understood, valued and practised as a profession, a branch of knowledge and a cultural and social institution.

Spis treści

Introduction: Disciplining History in Early Modern Spain  Cesc Esteve  1. Patriotic Historiography: Annius of Viterbo in Antonio de Nebrija  Francisco Bautista  2. Readers as Censors: Translations, Inhibitions and Manipulations of Some History Books in the Mid-Sixteenth Century  Baltasar Cuart  3. Unbanning Habsburg Imperial History: The Antwerp Index (1571) and the Expurgatory Policies of the Hispanic Monarchy  María José Vega  4. Early Modern Collaborative Scholarship and Censorship: Contextualizing the Expurgation of Jacques-Auguste de Thou’s Historiae in the 1612 Spanish Inquisitorial Index  Fabien Montcher  5. The Royal Chronicler - Historian or Counselor?: The Case of Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas  Richard L. Kagan  6. Censorship, Censure and Historical Thought in Early Modern Spain  Cesc Esteve  7. Censure and Censorship, Rhetoric and Probabilism: History on the Threshold of the Enlightenment  Victoria Pineda

O autorze

Cesc Esteve is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow in the Departament of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Barcelona.