...Chapter 6 turns to the material practices of expurgation—how these practices have been studied by scholars, how they were executed by readers and censors, and how they shed light on the individuals involved in expurgation. Individual copies of expurgated medical books are the primary source base...

...The epilogue turns from medicine to follow the themes of utility and professional expertise in the Catholic Church’s response to Copernican astronomy in 1616 and in Galileo’s reply to Copernicus’s censor (Francesco Ingoli) in his Dialogue of 1632. The decision to expurgate Copernicus’s De...

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...Chapter 2 focuses on the period between 1596 and 1607, when the Catholic Church called on theologians and lay professionals throughout Italy to work together to develop official expurgations of prohibited books. These expurgations were intended to preserve the useful content in books while removing...

..., and astrology; transform works by unorthodox Italians into viable Catholic texts; and strip Lutheranism from the works of popular humanist physicians. Where possible I have identified the authors who composed these expurgations and examined their consistency as censors and their reading methods. I pay...

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... epigrams ‘hitherto omitted by English translators’, and specifically those expurgated by the Bohn’s edition, which had omitted those epigrams considered ‘too gross for our present notions of propriety’. The chapter considers strategies of censorship and expurgation in these texts as well as the use...

... expurgation of the super­ natural element in prayer occurred quite gradually. Before 1920, a significant segment of liberal Protestantism sought to retain the traditional confidence in petitionary prayer even while asserting a devotional ethic in harmony with modern nonsupernaturalistic thought. Not until...

...Chapter 3 considers how a historian and physician from Ravenna, Girolamo Rossi, saw his own participation in the expurgation of medical books as an opportunity to engage actively in Catholic reform as a lay professional. In addition to his expurgations of prohibited books, Rossi’s papers testify...

... Shakespeare's plays. Although many of Shakespeare's plays were seen to belong to the past, several were not published until after May 1606. As such, there was a question on whether the earlier plays that may have revivals were covered. This chapter explores the instances of expurgation and aims to alter our...

... the presence of non-Roman astrological advisers at the court of Imperial Rome. It was the publication of Augustus’ horoscope in AD 11 and the edict forbidding the consultation of astrologers in private which necessitated a radical expurgation of astrological material in the Fasti by its author...