Read as a censor: censorship in Portugal, France and the Vatican between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th

• Autor(a) principal: Abreu, Márcia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ArtCultura (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/66576
• topic: Censura; práticas de leitura; literatura; Censorship; reading practices; literature

The article aims to present literate reaction to literature by analysing censorship reports produced at the Sacred Congregation of the Index, at the Vatican, and to the royalty, in Portugal and France, at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. The documentation shows that these institutions were much more than places to condemn and ban books. One can realize that those men didn't react to book the same way even though they were all censors, scholars and Catholics. The article takes into consideration the different ways of reading, its relationship with the qualification of readers and with the reading conditions. The material preserved by the censorship organizations also exhibits an early appreciation of literary writings and a strong concern with the formal quality of the texts.