I can't find a copy of The Age of Liberty: Sweden 1719-1772 for less than $40, but, Stabi not only has it, they have it available for reading online if you have a card. I don't know if it's any good, but it's recent-ish (1986, reprinted or second edition in 2009?), and it's our period.
I have managed to order, for a more reasonable price, a book called Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Germany. Schmidt was a theologian who published a new translation of the Pentateuch, which was considered sacrilegious on two grounds: 1) it claimed to supersede Luther! 2) it followed the Hebrew literally, without interposing millennia of Christian interpretation on the words. (From what little I read of Genesis in Hebrew before burning out on my old method of language study, I can tell you there is a significant difference between what it actually says and the traditional translations, aka what you probably think it says.) And you can see how that led to Schmidt getting included in a book that's about censorship.
Will let you know when the book arrives. I ran across it while looking up Wolff, and the Google excerpts looked interesting.
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Date: 2021-06-21 02:34 am (UTC)I have managed to order, for a more reasonable price, a book called Seize the Book, Jail the Author: Johann Lorenz Schmidt and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Germany. Schmidt was a theologian who published a new translation of the Pentateuch, which was considered sacrilegious on two grounds: 1) it claimed to supersede Luther! 2) it followed the Hebrew literally, without interposing millennia of Christian interpretation on the words. (From what little I read of Genesis in Hebrew before burning out on my old method of language study, I can tell you there is a significant difference between what it actually says and the traditional translations, aka what you probably think it says.) And you can see how that led to Schmidt getting included in a book that's about censorship.
Will let you know when the book arrives. I ran across it while looking up Wolff, and the Google excerpts looked interesting.