Article: BeliefWatch: Banned?(prohibited books in prison)
Newsweek;  August 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Lisa Miller Moshe Milstein, a religious Jew who is incarcerated at the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., wants his Maimonides back. Officials at the Otisville prison recently removed hundreds of books from the chapel library there--including, Milstein charges in court documents, works by

Article: La condamnation des livres coperniciens et sa revocation a la ...
Theological Studies;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... The next edition of the Index of Prohibited Books was published by Gregory XVI in 1835, and in that Index the Copernican prohibition ... clause does not appear in the Index of Prohibited Books of 1758. This action of the ...

Article: Index de Rome 1557, 1559, 1564: Les premiers index ...
Canadian Journal of History;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... only one copy of the Index itself survives today ... prototype version of the Index published in 1559 under ... to retain and consult prohibited books in an expurgated version ... of a revision of the index under Paul's successor ... entries in the Roman Indices with those in earlier ...

Article: Index: a Selective Timeline of Censorship ...
Conscience;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Discourses by former papal ambassador Niccolo Machiavelli on the Index of Prohibited Books. 1571 Pope Paul IV issues the first formal Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Prohibited Books. 1600 Giordano Bruno, a defender of Copernican theories ...

Article: Index
The Renaissance;      503 words ... ... The first edition of the Index was published in the Netherlands ... Papacy of Paul IV in 1557. The Index contained rules concerning ... selling, and reading of prohibited books. Those works placed on the Index were believed to endanger the ...

Dictionary definition: index librorum prohibitorum
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      321 words ...index librorum prohibitorum noun phrase (also Index Librorum Prohibitorum ) M17 Latin (= index of prohibited books). Roman Catholic Church The official list of books that Roman Catholics were forbidden to read. The first Index Librorum Prohibitorum ...

Dictionary definition: Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      315 words ...Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Lat., ‘List of prohibited books’), in short ‘the Index’. The official list of ... forbidden to read or possess. The first Index was issued in 1557 by the Congregation ...