mountainman

Does anyone know of an English translation
of the Librorum Prohibitorum?

There is a database at http://www.beaconforfreedom.org but this
only displays ten items at a time (out of 4,000 odd).

Stanford has a reasonable coverage from 1557-1966.



What happened before that?

I wonder if they actually kept lists in the fourth century
(or later) of "heretical works" which were to be placed
on a very real Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum - HIT-LIST?

I am tempted to extend the history of the
Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum from the fourth
century (Eusebius) through the fifth and sixth,
and in fact a start on this index has been
already made at this page entitled:

Knowledge Burning by the 4th Century Christians


Mainstreamers may like to have a Pre-Nicene Epoch,
and list the pre-Eusebian "Heretical writings" and
their authors, such as Celsus, Marcion et al.

Research students in the field of ancient history
are encouraged to approach me via PM should
they wish to contribute in this research project.



Best wishes,



Pete Brown

mountainman

Addenda:

Statistical distribution of entries
to the Librorum Prohibitorum by
century.


Century ---- Statistics
------------------ -----------
1600 to 1699 ---- 1398
1700 to 1799 ---- 1211
1800 to 1899 ---- 1379
1900 to 1966 ---- 311

4 row(s) affected)

mountainman

SOME NON-FICTION WRITERS IN THE INDEX

Thomas Hobbes (ENG)
Rene Descartes (FR)
Francis Bacon (ENG)

Michel de Montaigne(FR)
Benedict Spinoza(NETH)
John Milton (ENG)
Joseph Addison (ENG)
Richard Steel (ENG)

John Locke (ENG)

Emanuel Swedenborg (SW)
Daniel Defoe (ENG)
David Hume (SCOT)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (FR)

Edward Gibbon (ENG)

Blaise Pascal (FR)
Oliver Goldsmith (ENG)
Immanual Kant (GER)
Giovanni Casanova (FR)
John Stuart Mill (ENG)
Ernest Renan (FR)
Emile Zola (FR)
Andrew Lang (ENG)
Henri Bergson (FR)
Benedetto Croce (IT)
Jean-paul Sartre (FR)


Has anyone seen an English translation
of the contents of this index?

Best wishes


Pete Brown

Toto

What's the point of this? What do you hope to prove?

Huon

The first Roman "Index of Prohibited Books" (Index librorum prohibitorum), published in 1559 under Paul IV...

Catholic Encyclopedia, look at "Index".

mountainman

Hi Toto,

The indexes contain many books the titles of which
are available in French or Latin. I would like to be
able to peruse the English titles of books which were
banned by the church. Out of interest.

Best wishes,


Pete Brown