Introduction
Censorship on political, religious, and social grounds was a central institution for the stability of states and churches in the modern age (sections “Censorship: Ecclesiastical and Political,” “Censorship in Northern Europe,” and “Organisation of Catholic Censorship”). Censorship and repression triggered self-censorship and dissimulation (sections “Self-censorship” and “Dissimulation”). Here the focus is on ecclesiastical censorship of early modern science and philosophy. A distinction is drawn between formal and informal censorship, the former consisting in trials and confiscation and the latter in pressure on author and reader and the public opinion (sections “Modern Philosophy and Science Through a Looking-Glass” and “Effects of Catholic Censorship”).
Censorship: Ecclesiastical and Political
In the ecclesiastical context, the term “censure” had three fundamental meanings and three types of related use. In the first place, the term indicated a spiritual punishment...
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Spruit, L. (2019). Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Dissimulation. In: Jalobeanu, D., Wolfe, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_328-1
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