1st Edition
Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment
By Patrizia Delpiano
Copyright 2018
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 century characterized by important changes, from the... Read more
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
Biography
Patrizia Delpiano is professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin, Italy.
