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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0014-9527
- eISSN
- 1570-0690
- DOI
- 10.1163/157006900X00156
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book reviews INGRID WEEKHOUT, Boekencensuur in de Noordelijke Nederlanden. De vrijheid van drukpers in de zeventiende eeuw [Book censorship in the Northern Netherlands: the freedom of the press in the seventeenth century]. The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, I998, xvi, 580 pp. [= Nederlandse cultuur in Europese context, II], ISBN 90-I2-086I7-5, f 49.50. Also published as a doctoral thesis at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen. Foreigners often see the Netherlands as a country that allows an extreme measure of freedom, not only now, but also in past centuries: in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for example, because lots of books were printed there that were forbidden elsewhere. Even so, sonic books were forbidden in the Netherlands as well, and various authors have devoted studies to this subject. It began with the law student J.T. Bodel Nyenhuis's 1819 doctoral thesis (in Latin), a legal-historical overview of the subject. A Dutch translation incorporating the author's revisions appeared in 1892 as De wetgeving op drukpers en boekhandel in de Nederlanden tot in lzet begin der XIXde eeuw. In 1914 W.P.C. Knuttel neatly complemented this with his Verboden boeken in de Republiek der Tlereenigde Nederlanden. He looked not so much at the legislation as at
Journal
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000