The book chronicles the Catholic Church's attempt to control information from the Index’s 1559 creation to its 1966 abolition, analyzing it as a chaotic, human institution rather than a monolithic machine of oppression. 🏛️
The work is divided into two distinct parts that frame censorship as both a historical and thematic struggle: 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 chronicles the Catholic Church's attempt to