When “nothing” goes missing
Posted: March 10, 2013 Filed under: College of Physicians, Editions, Illustrations, William Jaggard | Tags: anatomy, anatomy theater, Bishop of London, censorship, College of Physicians, conference, Crooke, early modern, illustrations, London, Michael Sparke, Mikrokosmographia, Richard Cotes, William Jaggard 1 CommentAs promised, the full version of the paper I recently presented at the Society for Textual Scholarship conference is linked below. I’ve revised it slightly, both in response to the wonderful feedback I received at the conference and to make it more readable, as it was originally intended to be heard. Please forgive the clunky documentation; I believe it is complete, but, as so often happens with conference papers, it is rather ungraceful.
When “Nothing” Goes Missing: The Impotent Censorship of Helkiah Crooke’s Mikrokosmographia
Although I don’t have immediate plans for this piece, questions of censorship will certainly continue to be a part of my general inquiry into Crooke’s book, and I welcome further insights/questions, etc. As soon as I find time, I’ll be following up on Whitney Trettien‘s excellent suggestion to take a look at some anatomical flapbooks, such as the Hardin Library’s Johann Remmelin’s Catoptrum microcosmicum (1619) here at the University of Iowa that Whitney has blogged about.
