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Index Librorum Prohibitorum

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Index of Prohibited Books

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Religion
Length:
1,252 words

Neither state nor church in the Reformation era believed in complete freedom of expression. Nevertheless, religious discussion was remarkably free

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Index Librorum Prohibitorum   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
52 words

(Lat., ‘list of prohibited books’).

The ‘Index’, the official list of books which Roman Catholics were, in general, forbidden to

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Index Librorum Prohibitorum   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
354 words

The official list of books which Catholics are forbidden to read or possess. The Church has always claimed a pastoral

Index librorum prohibitorum

Index librorum prohibitorum   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
Length:
264 words

(‘List of Forbidden Books’).

Universities began to proscribe books in the 1540s, but the first official Index was issued in the name of Pope ...

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World Encyclopedia

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
48 words

Abbreviation for Index librorum prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books), a list of books banned by the Roman Catholic

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

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The Oxford Companion to the Book

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
259 words

List of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church as heretical or immoral. The earliest known list of forbidden texts goes back to ...

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