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- Title
Travaux sur la censure et les index des livres interdits réalisés à l'Université de Sherbrooke.
- Authors
DE BUJANDA, J. M.
- Abstract
The invention of printing in the fifteenth century was an important factor in the dissemination of ideas that served civic and religious authorities as well as the humanist movement. When, in the sixteenth century, printing became the primary means of spreading the Protestant Reformation, civic and ecclesiastical authorities who remained faithful to the Roman Catholic church attempted to halt the printing, sale, possession, and reading of heterodox works. It is thus that we witness the birth of the first lists of forbidden books and authors, which were given the title “Index of Prohibited Books." This Counter-Reformation practice, formalized by the Council of Trent, was of particular importance in the sixteenth century. It became, over time, an important means of defending Catholicism against its external and internal enemies, and the practice continued until Vatican II in the mid-twentieth century. Over the past four decades, the Centre d'Études de la Renaissance de l'Université de Sherbrooke has devoted many studies to the indices of the sixteenth century and to those published later by the Spanish Inquisition and by the Roman Curias Congregations for the Index and for the Holy Office. This research has produced many publications, in particular the twelve volumes of the collection Index des livres interdits.
- Subjects
INDEX librorum prohibitorum; PROHIBITED books (Canon law); UNIVERSITE de Sherbrooke; SPANISH Inquisition, 1478-1820; HISTORY of printing; CATHOLIC Church history; REFORMATION; RENAISSANCE; HISTORY of humanism; INQUISITION; SIXTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 4, p101
- ISSN
0034-429X
- Publication type
Article