Forbidden Books
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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What Is a List?
There were multiple versions of this and they were related. You had the Spanish Inquisition, the Portuguese Inquisition, the Roman Inquisition,. There were a number of these different branches of Catholic discipline. So it actually began at the University of Paris as a bitch fight between a bunch of professors over whose books should be allowed in the classroom. The Reformation is a huge threat to Catholic authority. And so when we're looking at stages in development of the index, again a surprising thing that I discovered in all this is it's not actually the inquisitors at first or the popes who come up with the idea but university professors like me. It is precisely what happened.
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