Press Censorship in Caroline England

Press Censorship in Caroline England

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"The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such contradictions transpire because the Caroline regime and its critics employed similar rhetorical strategies that depended on the language of orthodoxy, order, tradition and law, but to achieve different ends. Building on her two previous studies on press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg scrutinizes all aspects of Caroline print culture: book production in London, the universities, and on the Continent; licensing and authorization practices in both the Stationers' Company and among the ecclesiastical licensers; cases before the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber and the Stationers' Company's Court of Assistants; and trade regulation."--Jacket.

ISBN

9780521876681, 0521876680

Publication Date

2008

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

Cambridge, New York

Keywords

Freedom, Press, Politics, Government, History

Disciplines

History

Press Censorship in Caroline England

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