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Index librorum prohibitorum |
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Index librorum prohibitorum(Latin; Index of Forbidden Books) List of books considered dangerous to the faith or morals of Catholics. Compiled by official Roman Catholic censors, the Index was never a complete catalog of forbidden reading; it contained only works that the ecclesiastical authority was asked to act on. Though the church's concern over books is much older, the first catalog of banned books to be called an index was published in 1559. Publication of the list ceased in 1966, and it was relegated to the status of a historic document. Index librorum prohibitorum list of forbidden books compiled by Roman Catholic Church. [Christian Hist.: NCE, 1323] See : Censorship How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Lucian was emphatically not a friendly witness: his mockeries of Christianity earned him a reputation in Byzantium as the Anti-Christ and a place on the first edition of the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books. In a previous age, someone in the Vatican could slap this story on the Index of Forbidden Books. This is still the same Philip who enforced the censorship demanded by the Index of Forbidden Books, and the same Philip who tried to prevent Spanish youths from studying abroad, but Kamen marshals sufficient evidence to suggest that after 1559 banned literature still found its way into Spain, and Spanish students still enrolled in foreign universities. |
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