The Index Of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries O... < TRUSTED >

Charles Darwin was never on the Index, while some popular authors were ignored because they were deemed "too boring" to be dangerous.

The book expands the narrative beyond Rome, showing how local Inquisitions (Spanish, Portuguese) and universities (Paris, Louvain) ran their own censorship campaigns. The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries o...

by Robin Vose (2022) is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum . Charles Darwin was never on the Index, while