Censorship moments : reading texts in the history of censorship and freedom of expression

List of illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Cato the Censor and Socrates the Tyrant by Arlene W. Saxonhouse 2 The Case of Cremutius Cordus: Tacitus on Censorship and Writing Under Despotic Rulers by Daniel J. Kapust 3 The Peace of Babylon (And What it Censors): St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God by Miles Hollingworth 4 The Regulation of Language in Medieval Theology: The Summa Theologia of St Thomas Aquinas by Debora Shuger 5 William of Ockham on Ecclesiastical Censorship by Takashi Shogimen 6 'Whether to Confiscate, Burn and Destroy All Jewish Books': Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy by David H. Price 7 To Kill a Heretic: Sebastien Castellio Against John Calvin by Bruce Gordon 8 Paolo Sarpi, the Papal Index and Censorship by Federico Barbierato 9 Areopagitica's Adversary: Henry Parker and the Humble Remonstrance by Geoff Kemp 10 Text and Image: William Marshall's Frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike by Helen Pierce 11 Rara temporum felicitas: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise by Edwin Curley 12 Roman Censorship, Spartan Parallels, and Modern Uses in Rousseau's Social Contract by Melissa Lane 13 Censorship from Rulers, Censorship from Book Piracy: The Strategies of Immanuel Kant by John Christian Laursen 14 The 'Censorship of Public Opinion': James Madison, the Sedition Act Crisis, and Democratic Press Liberty by Robert Martin 15 The 'Spirit of Independence' in Benjamin Constant's Thoughts on a Free Press by Bryan Garsten 16 The Royal Shambles (1816): Hiding Republicanism in Plain Sight by Jason McElligott 17 Mill and Censoriousness by Gregory Claeys 18 'Every Idea is an Incitement': Holmes and Lenin in 1919 by Sue Curry Jansen 19 Orwell: Liberty, Literature and the Issue of Censorship by Stephen Ingle 20 Sphinx with a Secret: Leo Strauss's 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' by Thomas Meyer 21 The Silencing of Women's Voices: Catharine MacKinnon's Only Words by Katherine Smits Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index