Los libros que nunca fueron. El control del Consejo de Castilla sobre la imprenta en el siglo XVIII

Abstract

In the eighteenth century the Council of Castile practised censorship prior to the printing of books. Yet censors never were exclusively laymen, and the relations with the Inquisition evolved from a short period of apparent independence in the sixties and seventies to open collaboration at the end of the century. The survey of the applications refused allows to draw the conclusions that censorship was practised without any established criteria, and that decisions were left to the censors' arbitrary judgement.