Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Rosenthaliana
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,1-2 (2020) 71-95
Keywords:
Paulli, Oliger,
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Judaism Relations 17th century
;
Christianity
;
Printing History 17th century
;
Censorship
Abstract:
Numerous religious texts were printed that would have been censored, elsewhere including Jewish religious texts. Yet freedom had its limits. In August 1701, Amsterdam’s judiciary council ordered the books authored by the Danish visionary Oliger Paulli, who advocated for a new religion uniting Jews and Christians, to be destroyed. In addition, the council sentenced Paulli to twelve years, imprisonment and later to permanent banishment, while two of his printers received hefty fines for printing his books. While earlier accounts have explained Paulli’s arrest by pointing to his heretical ideas, Paulli had publicly been advocating his views without causing scandal for years. The present chapter explores an alternate reason for his arrest, focusing on his printing connections that year, which caused Amsterdam’s authorities to associate Paulli with some of Amsterdam’s most outspoken religious dissenters and critics of religious authority.
DOI:
10.5117/SR2020.1-2.004.KUNE
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