The | Index Of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries O...

The book expands the narrative beyond Rome, showing how local Inquisitions (Spanish, Portuguese) and universities (Paris, Louvain) ran their own censorship campaigns.

Traces censorship back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, illustrating that the Church's later efforts built upon existing societal impulses to control knowledge. The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries o...

by Robin Vose (2022) is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum . The book expands the narrative beyond Rome, showing