Professor Edoardo Tortarolo
Facoltà di lettere e Filosofia Università del Piemonte orientale, Italy
Changing forms of censorship in early modern Western Europe
29th November – 3rd December 2004 15.oo–16.3o, room 118
Department of History Adam Mickiewicz University ul. sw. Marcin 78, Poznan
SYLLABUS
1. Monday, 29 th November 2004
Heresy and books: the Roman Inquisition as a paradigm
Church, censorship and culture in early modern Italy, ed. by Gigliola Fragnito,
transl. by Adrian Belton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 (chapter # 1).
2. Tuesday, 30 th November 2004
Experiments in the freedom of the press
John Milton, Areopagitica (e-text: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/areopagitica.html )
3. Wednesday, 1 st December 2004
The French model of press control
Robert Darnton, The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history.
New York : Basic Books, 1984 (chapter on Joseph d'Héméry).
4. Thursday, 2nd December 2004
The media of the Enlightenment vs censorship
Robert Darnton, An early information society (e-text: http://www.indiana.edu/~ahr/darnton )
Baker Keith M., “Public opinion as political invention”, in Inventing the French Revolution.
Essays on French Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990: 167-199.
5. Friday, 3rd December 2004
Ancien regime censorship and ourselves: what has changed?
Censorship and silencing: practices of cultural regulation (a Symposium titled:
“Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation,” which was held
at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 15-16 December 1997),
ed. by Robert C. Post. Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1998.
Readings available to copy in the reading room of the library (Department of History, ul. Sw. Marcin 78)
Information: dr Ewa Domanska, Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. sw. Marcin 78
tel.: (0-61) 829 4766; email: ewa@amu.edu.pl