1st Edition

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

Edited By Cesc Esteve Copyright 2018
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The overall purpose of the studies collected together in this volume is to explain the shaping of Hispanic historiography in the Early Modern period by examining the continuities and discursive complicities between the writing, criticism, theory and censorship of history. This book sheds light on the so-far neglected circulation of ideas and practices between these four areas, and highlights the... Read more

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

Biography

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