Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The list of books (not authors, as sometimes thought) that Roman Catholics were forbidden to read. Rules for the formation of this list and of the related Index Expurgatorius (an ...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... Librorum Prohibitorum The list of books (not authors, as sometimes thought) that Roman Catholics were forbidden to read. Rules for the formation of this list and of the related Index Expurgatorius (an authoritative specification of the passages to be expunged or altered in works Roman Catholics might otherwise read) were drawn up by the Council of Trent in 1564 . Successive editions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum were published from time to time, but were largely obsolete by the 18th century. Both indexes were abolished in 1966...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... Librorum Prohibitorum (Lat., ‘list of prohibited books’). The ‘Index’, the official list of books which Roman Catholics were, in general, forbidden to read or possess. The first Index was issued by the Congregation of the Inquisition in 1557 . Its last edn. was in 1948 , and in 1966 it was finally...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... Librorum Prohibitorum The list of books that Roman Catholics were forbidden to read. Rules for the formation of this list and of the related Index Expurgatorius (an authoritative specification of the passages to be expunged or altered in works Roman Catholics might otherwise read) were drawn up by the Council of Trent in 1564 . Both indexes were abolished in 1966...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... librorum prohibitorum (Lat., ‘List of prohibited books’), in short ‘the Index’. The official list of books issued by the RC Church which its members were normally forbidden to read or possess. After various regional indexes had been issued in different parts of Europe, the first general Index was issued in 1557 by the Congregation of the Inquisition ( see Holy Office ). In 1966 the Index ceased to have the force of ecclesiastical law, with attached censures, but is said to retain its moral...
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Spencer Weinreich
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
.... ‡ Spencer Weinreich J. M. De Bujanda (ed.), Index de Rome 1557, 1559, 1564: les premiers index romains et l’index du Concile de Trente (Sherbrooke and Geneva, 1990). J. M. De Bujanda (ed.), Index de Rome 1590, 1593, 1596: avec étude des index de Parme 1580 et Munich 1582 (Sherbrooke and Geneva, 1994). J. M. De Bujanda (ed.), Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600–1966 (Montreal, 2002). F. H. Reusch , Der Index der verbotenen Bücher (2 vols, Bonn, 1883–5). J. Hilgers , SJ, Der Index der verbotenen Bücher: In seiner neuen Fassung dargelegt...
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
... Librorum Prohibitorum ( List of Forbidden Books ) List of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church as heretical or immoral. The earliest known list of forbidden texts goes back to Pope Innocent I in 405 , but the advent of the printing press and the battle against Protestantism required better bibliographical aids. The first Index , containing 230 titles, was issued by the University of Paris in 1544 , followed by one from Louvain in 1546 . In 1549 , the papal nuncio Giovanni della Casa published the first Italian list of prohibited books in...
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
... Librorum Prohibitorum . The official list of books which Catholics are forbidden to read or possess. The Church has always claimed a pastoral duty to review books and where necessary condemn them, but the first official indices in Italy were issued in the 16th c. by secular governments (Milan 1538 , Lucca 1545 , Siena 1548 , Venice 1549 ). In 1542 the Congregation of the Holy Office was given responsibility for supervising publications, but it was only in 1559 , after a number of false starts, that the first Roman Index was published. This list...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... librorum prohibitorum (‘List of Forbidden Books’). Universities began to proscribe books in the 1540s, but the first official Index was issued in the name of Pope Paul IV by the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition in 1557 ; the first revised edition appeared in January 1559 . In 1571 Pope Pius V established the Congregation of the Index to be in charge of maintenance and revision of the list; the secretary of the Congregation (which was reorganized in 1588 ) was always a Dominican. The list proscribed all the works of some authors, but in...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... librorum prohibitorum noun phrase (also Index Librorum Prohibitorum ) M17 Latin (= index of prohibited books). Roman Catholic Church The official list of books that Roman Catholics were forbidden to read. The first Index Librorum Prohibitorum was published in 1564 as part of the Counter-Reformation program instituted at the Council of Trent, and the list was not abolished until 1966 . It was also referred to simply as the Index...
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19 The Electronic Book Reference library
Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...argument and ultimate sense may be central to the online experience; authorial voice and point of view are contested far more actively than in print. The e-book also allows a publisher or distributor to control access to a title in ways unimagined even by the * Index Librorum Prohibitorum . It can encrypt the book and apply a digital-rights management (DRM) scheme to any book, chapter, article, image, video clip, or sound file. It can control printing, copying, and alterations. It can—depending on legal issues—track usage, preferences, even the rate of...
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula Reference library
María Luisa López-Vidriero
The Oxford Companion to the Book
... Diálogo de Lactancio or Lactancia , together with the Diálogo de Mercurio y Carón , were printed in Spain in 1529 . In 1531 the Inquisition banned the publication, and Juan and Alfonso de Vald és appeared in the indexes of prohibited books at Milan and Venice in 1554 , and at Portugal in 1581 ( see index librorum prohibitorum ). The Lactancio was printed on its own (bearing a *false imprint ) in Spanish at Paris in 1586 . Another edition ( Dialogo en que particularmente se tratan las cosas acaecidas en Roma , Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1586 ),...
24 The History of the Book in Germany Reference library
John L. Flood
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Commission and the * Index Librorum Prohibitorum to control books were largely ineffective, however, in part because their workings were arbitrary. Titles sometimes appeared on the Index simply because their authors were non-Catholics. Books in the vernacular were particularly targeted because they were intended for a wider public. One might have expected the Catholic authorities to permit Protestant books dealing with internal theological quarrels as revealing the inadequacies of their cause, but these too appeared on the Index . Often it sufficed for a...
46 The History of the Book in Latin America (including Incas, Aztecs, and the Caribbean) Reference library
Eugenia Roldán Vera
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...publishing rights to selected printers in the colonies, especially for the publication of popular religious books; the rights also tended to inhibit the expansion of print in those territories. The Inquisition was meant to see that none of the books listed in the * Index Librorum Prohibitorum —mainly heretical works, books of magic and divination and, in the 18 th century, works of the French philosophes —made its way into the Americas. Yet this form of control was not very strict, and smuggling from Britain and France was common, especially in the last...
22 The History of the Book in France Reference library
Vincent Giroud
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Romanticism is associated above all with poetry and the novel, and to a lesser extent the theatre; but the greatest success of the period was a religious essay, Lamennais’s Paroles d’un croyant ( 1834 ). Its sales were boosted by its being immediately added to the * Index Librorum Prohibitorum , a fate it shared with Renan’s even more successful Vie de Jésus ( 1863 ), which sold more than 160,000 copies in its first year. The ‘consecration of the writer’ (Bénichou) in 19 th -century France reached its apex with Hugo’s state funeral in 1885 . This...
