A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
by Judith Flanders · 6 Feb 2020 · 404pp · 110,942 words
by author, followed shortly by lists from universities, from Leuven in the Low Countries to Venice and Portugal. The first edition of the Vatican’s Index librorum prohibitorum, Index of Prohibited Books, appeared in 1559 under the authority of Paul IV. It was divided into three sections: authors who were entirely forbidden; individual
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; see also libraries banned books ref1 curriculum ref1, ref2 grading systems ref1 urbanization ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Varro (grammarian) ref1 Vatican; see also archives; libraries Index librorum prohibitorum ref1 Verrius Flaccus ref1 Villiers, Édouard de ref1 Vincent of Beauvais ref1, ref2, ref3 Virgil ref1 Vitruvius (Roman architectural writer) ref1 Vives, Jan Ludovicus ref1
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz · 3 May 2021 · 412pp · 115,048 words
printing gave all strata of society access to words and images, modern censorship began in earnest. The Catholic Church issued its Index of Forbidden Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) in 1559; pornography, an instant sensation among the unwashed, was proscribed; and much of the key learning of the Renaissance was banned, as were the
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books, licensing schemes to pre-clear or refuse texts, and imposing import restrictions. The most important catalog was the Vatican’s Index of Forbidden Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1559), which was intended to “expunge from human memory” the names of heretics, blacklisted printers, purveyors of certain sexual works, and other offending matter such
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; Christiane Anderson, “Polemical Prints During the Reformation,” in Censorship: 500 Years of Conflict, ed. William Zeisel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 35–36. 6. “Index Librorum Prohibitorum,” in Derek Jones, ed., Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (London: Routledge, 2001), 4277. 7. Daniel P. Sheridan, “The Catholic Case: The Index of Prohibited Books,” Journal
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paintings, censorship of; visual arts The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It (Helper), 155 The Independent (publication), 203 Index of Forbidden Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), 11, 63, 104 Index on Censorship (publication), 244 Indonesia, 205 Inferno (Dante), 61 Innocent III (pope), 53 Inquisition, 70 Inside Nazi Germany (film), 191 Institute
The Library: A Fragile History
by Arthur Der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree · 14 Oct 2021 · 457pp · 173,326 words
Frankfurt fair, cutting off their access to the scientific and scholarly books produced by the northern centres of publishing.41 8. An edition of the Index librorum prohibitorum (1758), a cornerstone of the Catholic response to the threat of Protestantism. The frontispiece of the book shows a pile of heretical books in flames
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Decker, View of the Ruins of the Cloister Koningsveld, near Delft (1680). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: RP-P-1905-5697. 8. Frontispiece of an edition of the Index librorum prohibitorum (1758). Library of Congress: LC-USZ62-95166. 9. Hendrik Bary, Portrait of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Taurinus (1576–1618) (c.1657–1707). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: RP
God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
by Gerald Posner · 3 Feb 2015 · 1,590pp · 353,834 words
than ever to ban books it considered dangerous. The works of acclaimed modernist scholars such as Ernesto Buonaiuti and Alfred Loisy were transferred to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books). Writers who refused to be silenced, like George Tyrell, were excommunicated.I And the Pope stacked the Vatican’s Biblical Commission
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. His fall was so great that when Pius was on his deathbed in a couple of years, a Papal chamberlain turned him away. * * * I. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was active from 1559 until Pope Paul VI eliminated it in 1966. Catholics could be excommunicated for owning or reading the banned books. The Koran
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their victims. John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession (New York: Basic Books, 2014). 19 M. De Bujanda and Marcella Richter, ed., Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600–1966, Vol. XI (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2002). 20 Chadwick, A History of the Popes, 356. 21 In a 1907 decree, Pius branded the burgeoning
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman and Jeff Riggenbach Ph. · 1 Apr 2013 · 204pp · 61,491 words
. It continued to be recognized by Elizabeth I, the Stuarts, and many other post-Gutenberg monarchs, including Pope Paul IV, in whose reign the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum was drawn. To paraphrase David Riesman only slightly, in a world of printing, information is the gunpowder of the mind; hence come the censors in
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Development of Advertising, The (Presbrey) Hoffman, David Hofstadter, Richard Holbrook, Josiah Homer (Pope) Horn, Steve Huxley, Aldous ; Brave New World illuminated manuscripts Image, The (Boorstin) Index Librorum Prohibitorum Iranian hostage crisis Jackson, Jesse Japan Javits, Jacob Jay, John Jaynes, Julian Jefferson, Thomas Jews Johnston, J. R W. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, John F. Kent
Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
by Markus Krajewski and Peter Krapp · 18 Aug 2011 · 222pp · 74,587 words
struggle against the Jesuits, but also in regulating the book flood.67 As a third tactic, Gerhard van Swieten keeps adding to the Roman Catholic Index Librorum Prohibitorum, first published in 1559, appending to the Austrian secular version his brief judgments on numerous additions.68 While Gerhard van Swieten concentrated on scholarly texts
Rome
by Lonely Planet
the Holy Office was set up as the Church’s final appeals court for trials prosecuted by the Inquisition. In 1559 the Church published the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books) and began to persecute intellectuals and freethinkers. Galileo Galilei (1564−1642) was forced to renounce his assertion of the Copernican astronomical
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in her sumptuous historical novel The Borgia Bride (2006), a sensual account of Vatican scheming and dangerous passions. In 1559 Pope Paul IV published the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books), a list of books forbidden by the Catholic Church. Over the next 400 years, it was revised 20 times, the last
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
by Catherine Nixey · 20 Sep 2017
‘useless multitudes’ were, in return, magnificently unimpressed by Gibbon’s arguments, and they promptly placed his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, its list of banned books.* Even in liberal England, the atmosphere became fiercely hostile to the historian. Gibbon later said that he had been shocked
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
by Sarah Ogilvie · 17 Oct 2023
in slips to the OED. Just two years earlier, Ashbee had published a bibliography of obscene literature, which is now acknowledged as his masterwork, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Books Worthy of Being Prohibited (1877), under the pseudonym Pisanus Fraxi, an anagram of the Latin for ash, fraxinus, and bee, apis
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, 218, 221, 222–3 Ashbee, Elsa 221, 222 Ashbee, Frances 221, 223 Ashbee, Henry Spencer 214–15, 216, 217–21, 220, 222, 223, 249, 340 Index Librorum Prohibitorum 219 My Secret Life 219–21 Ashbee, Louisa Maud 223 Association for the Higher Education of Women 209–10 Athenæum, the 256 Atkins, Dr Francis
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by Geoffrey West · 15 May 2017 · 578pp · 168,350 words
of his life under house arrest (nine more years during which he went blind). His books were banned and put on the Vatican’s infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum. It wasn’t until 1835, more than two hundred years later, that his works were finally dropped from the Index, and until 1992—almost four
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the World (Barber), 262 impedance matching, 122–23, 128–29, 155, 158 increasing returns to scale, 18, 19, 275–76, 378 indeterminate growth, 165–66 Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 38 India, 10, 231, 280 growth curve, 375 individual performance and deviations from scaling, 50–51 industrial city, rise of, 222–26 Industrial Revolution, 9
Big Bang
by Simon Singh · 1 Jan 2004 · 492pp · 149,259 words
Free Speech And Why It Matters
by Andrew Doyle · 24 Feb 2021 · 137pp · 35,041 words
Nobody's Perfect: Writings From the New Yorker
by Anthony Lane · 26 Aug 2002 · 879pp · 309,222 words
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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Europe: A History
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