| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Lucia Bianchin. Dove non arriva la legge: Dottrine della censura nella prima età moderna. (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento; Monografie, number 41.) Bologna: Il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 389 €25.50.

This is a study of the theory of civil censorship. Lucia Bianchin analyzes political treatises written by Jean Bodin (1529/30–1596), French professor of law Pierre Grégoire (1540–1597), Dutch humanist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), Calvinist magistrate Johannes Althusius (1557–1638), and German Lutheran Johann Angelius Werdenhagen (1581–1652). Beginning with Bodin's Six livres de la République of 1576 and ending with Werdenhagen's work of 1635, Bianchin focuses on what these authors had to say about censorship by civil authorities. Each began with an account of the office of censor in ancient Republican Rome. Bodin argued that censorship had its origins in the census in ancient Rome, which began by counting and gathering information about subjects but became a means of regulating and disciplining them. Bodin argued that the role of state censorship in contemporary Europe was to correct abuses in the population, such as drunkenness, gambling, laziness, obscenity, and vagabondage, that were not prosecuted through laws and justice. This form of censorship was a remedy for corruption that might spread in the state.

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