The Index of Forbidden Books — The Original Banned Book List
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Banning books is almost as old as moveable type.
Centuries before anti-freedom of reading groups like Mom’s For Liberty or the states of Florida and Utah came along, the granddaddy of modern mass censorship – the Roman Catholic church – drafted its own list of books containing ideas it didn’t want its flock to know about.
Thusly the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Index of Forbidden Books, was created in 1559.
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