Reading and rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914 /
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the 'Index of Forbidden Books', figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of freedom cha...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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Table of Contents:
- At thge origins of Germany's book wars, 1770-1815
- Gall and honey in the Catholic theology of cultural taste
- Reading run amok in Prussia triumphant, 1815-1845
- Book mischief in the "papal monarchy," 1845-1880
- Catholics and their "deficit in education"
- The tail wags the dog: the lay rebellion against Catholic libraries after 1880
- Brave new world: lay reading in the libraries they want
- An appetite for pleasure: private reading in Germania profana.