Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome

This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems , an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a resounding success. For the next century it was republished dozens of times in different historical context, from France to Holland to England. The work sowed the idea that religious persecution and coe