Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Book
Description
Imagine a world in which every piece of media ever written must be approved by the government before being publicly distributed. Despite sounding like part of a dystopian novel, this is instead a process known in Latin as “Imprimatur”- or in English, “let it be printed”. This process was first used by the Catholic Church in the mid-1500s but was later adopted by others. A set of books that were Imprimatured in England in the 1700s is a collection of Latin poems held by Binghamton University’s Special collection entitled Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta. The research process into these books studied the Imprimatur process and its relationship to censorship over a period of time, especially since the third volume is an “unauthorized continuation” of the first two. The broader implications of this research could tell us whether Imprimaturing was strictly censorship, or if it was more politically and socially nuanced.
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Recommended Citation
McMurray, Fiona, "Politics in Printing: Protestantism, Catholicism, Capitalism, and Censorship" (2025). Research Days Posters 2025. 119.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/119
