Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 / edited by Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingram, Robert G., editor.

Peacey, Jason, editor.

Barber, Alex W., editor.

Series:

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech--History.

Freedom of speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 Freedom of speech in England and the anglophone world, 15001850

2 Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England

3 Pearls before swine

4 Free speech in Elizabethan and early Stuart England

5 The origins of the concept of freedom of the press

6 Swift and free speech

7 Defending the truth

8 The warr. .. against heaven by blasphemors and infidels

9 David Hume and Of the Liberty of the Press (1741) in its original contexts

10 The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 178788

11 Before and beyond On Liberty

12 Unfree, unequal, unempirical

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 31, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-5556-7

1-5261-4711-4

OCLC:

1153559341