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Voicing Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Inquisition, Social Criticism and Theology in the Case of El Criticón

By Patricia W. Manning

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9004178511, 9789004178519
LCC
PQ6398.G3 C785 2009
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2021272 bytes)
Series
Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Pages
340\340
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
17th CenturyBiography & AutobiographyCase StudiesCatholic ChurchCensorshipDissentersDissenters; ReligiousEMEBCEuropeEuropeanHistoryInquisitionLiterary CriticismNonfictionPolitical ScienceReligiousReligious AspectsSpainSpain & PortugalSpanish & Portuguese

Description

Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition s approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of the fiction of Baltasar Gracián, this book argues that privileged authors, like the Jesuit Gracián, circumvented publication strictures that were meant to ensure that printed materials conformed to the standards of Catholicism and supported the goals of the absolute monarchy. In contrast to some elite authors who composed readily transparent critiques of authorities and encountered difficulties with the state and Inquisition, others, like Gracián, made their criticisms covertly in complicated texts like El Criticón.

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