LEADER 04815nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910787525103321 005 20220304015925.0 010 $a0-8122-0334-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203349 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418247 035 $a(OCoLC)859160894 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001075707 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11573682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001075707 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11252422 035 $a(PQKB)10728037 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26815 035 $a(DE-B1597)449200 035 $a(OCoLC)979577999 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442130 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748519 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442130 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418247 100 $a20050914d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCensorship and cultural sensibility$b[electronic resource] $ethe regulation of language in Tudor-Stuart England /$fDebora Shuger 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51106-3 311 0 $a0-8122-3917-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-335) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. "That Great and Immoderate Liberty of Lying" --$tChapter 2. The Index and the English: Two Traditions of Early Modern Censorship --$tChapter 3. Roman Law --$tChapter 4. The Christian Transmission of Roman Law Iniuria --$tChapter 5. The Law of All Civility --$tChapter 6. Defendants' Rights and Poetic Justice --$tChapter 7. Hermeneutics, History, and the Delegitimation of Censorship --$tChapter 8. Intent --$tChapter 9. Ideological Censorship --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640's argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate. Virtually all substantive law on language concerned defamation, regulating what one could say about other people. Hence Tudor-Stuart laws extended protection only to the person hurt by another's words, never to their speaker. In treating transgressive language as akin to battery, English law differed fundamentally from papal censorship, which construed its target as heresy. There were thus two models of censorship operative in the early modern period, both premised on religious norms, but one concerned primarily with false accusation and libel, the other with false belief and immorality. Shuger investigates the first of these models-the dominant English one-tracing its complex origins in the Roman law of iniuria through medieval theological ethics and Continental jurisprudence to its continuities and discontinuities with current U.S. law. In so doing, she enables her reader to grasp how in certain contexts censorship could be understood as safeguarding both charitable community and personal dignitary rights. 606 $aFreedom of the press$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aFreedom of the press$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPoliteness (Linguistics)$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aPoliteness (Linguistics)$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aFreedom of the press$xHistory 615 0$aFreedom of the press$xHistory 615 0$aPoliteness (Linguistics)$xHistory 615 0$aPoliteness (Linguistics)$xHistory 676 $a342.4208/53 700 $aShuger$b Debora K.$f1953-$01157782 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787525103321 996 $aCensorship and cultural sensibility$93697140 997 $aUNINA