The Index of Prohibited Books

The first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index , with resonance for ongoing debates over banned books, censorship, and free speech .   For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers, and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in Protestant and non-Christian circles. Biased, inconsistent, and frequently absurd in it