Banned books : medicine, readers, and censors in early modern Italy, 1559-1664
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Banned Books: Medicine, Readers, and Censors in Early Modern Italy, 1559-1664 examines the censorship of medical books as a lens into debates about the complex relationship between faith and knowledge after the Reformation. I approach the question of censorship from many perspectives: the community of physicians who wanted to maintain access to prohibited medical works; the ecclesiastical and lay censors who both carried out, and in some instances undermined, efforts to expurgate books rather than burn them; the readers licensed to keep prohibited books; and finally expurgated copies of the books themselves that bear the physical marks of censorship. Each of these angles reveals the ways in which the Counter-Reformation project of intellectual and religious control was a human drama defined by institutional ambitions, personal agendas, social constraints, practical realities, and the material form and content of the early printed book. Catholic censorship was a form of promulgation that fostered a community of readers with particular expertise. The consequences of this contradiction included a system of selective expurgation rather than total destruction, an extensive population of licensed readers of prohibited books, and ultimately a selective embrace of Protestant and heterodox medical knowledge in Counter-Reformation Italy.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Marcus, Hannah Florence |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Findlen, Paula |
| Thesis advisor | Findlen, Paula |
| Thesis advisor | Grafton, Anthony |
| Thesis advisor | Riskin, Jessica |
| Thesis advisor | Stokes, Laura, 1974- |
| Advisor | Grafton, Anthony |
| Advisor | Riskin, Jessica |
| Advisor | Stokes, Laura, 1974- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Hannah Florence Marcus. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2016 by Hannah Florence Marcus
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