Receiving approbations from Jansenist censors: a strategy for circumventing the anti-Jansenist pre-publication censorship of Malines archbishop Humbertus de Precipiano (1690-1711)
This article focuses on the agency of the different players involved in anti-Jansenist book censorship during the Malines archiepiscopate of Humbertus de Precipiano (1690-1711). It builds upon recent scholarship that emphasizes the ambiguous task and divided loyalties of censors. This essay chooses...
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In Monte Artium
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article focuses on the agency of the different players involved in anti-Jansenist book censorship during the Malines archiepiscopate of Humbertus de Precipiano (1690-1711). It builds upon recent scholarship that emphasizes the ambiguous task and divided loyalties of censors. This essay chooses to study the actions of officials inside censorial institutions as well as the strategies printers, authors and book agents pursued when facing a rigorous anti-Jansenist censorship. During his archiepiscopate, de Precipiano reformed pre-publication censorship in order to halt the spread of Jansenist ideas. He was unsuccessful, however, because the printers received approbations from Jansenist censors. I argue that, in the case of Jansenism, the fidelity of censors to this religious movement prevailed over their loyalty to ecclesiastical administrations and the insistence on upholding the norms. Even in a mono-confessional context characterized by book censorship aimed at defending orthodoxy from internal threats, actors such as censors allowed their personal beliefs to guide them, with the result that pre-publication censorship was inefficient. |
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