Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Regulating Knowledge: Rules as Enablers -- PART 1 Labelling -- 1 Guidelines for Reading: Medieval censura and Roman Censorship -- 2 Regulating Dangerous Knowledge: John Lockman's (1698-1771) Enlightened Readings of Jesuit Letters -- PART 2 Validating -- 3 Validating Linguistic Knowledge of Amerindian Languages
4 Regulating the Form: How Manuscript Newsletters Influenced the Standards for Dutch Printed Newspapers (c. 1580-1630) -- 5 Lost in Regulation: The Hybrid Stage of Trade Knowledge -- PART 3 Instructing -- 6 Instructing Trade and War: Regulating Knowledge and People on Faraway Dutch Voyages ca. 1600 -- 7 Regulating the Transfer of Secret Knowledge in Renaissance Venice: A Form of Early Modern Management -- PART 4 Disciplining -- 8 Risking Private Ventures: The Instructive Failure of a Well-Traveled Artist, Cornelis de Bruyn
9 On Censors and Booksellers: Curial Elites and the Regulation of Roman Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century -- 10 Regulating the Exchange of Knowledge: Invoking the 'Republic of Letters' as a Speech Act -- Index