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What is the Index?

Title
What is the Index?
Author
Burke, Redmond A., 1914-1996
Publication
Milwaukee, Bruce [1952]

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Book/TextUse in library Z1019 .B95 1952Off-site

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Description
x, 129 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Director of Libraries of De Paul University presents the Catholic Church's attitude toward books and reading. Contains a list of writers or specific works the reading of which is restricted to varying degrees.
Subject
  • Index librorum prohibitorum
  • Index librorum prohibitorum
  • Prohibited books
  • Prohibited books > Bibliography
  • Prohibited books
  • Christliche Ethik
Genre/Form
  • bibliographies.
  • Bibliographies
  • Bibliographies.
Note
  • A revision of the author's thesis, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 117-123
Contents
1. Historical background -- 2. Censorship of books in advance of publication -- 3. Condemnation of published books -- 4. General classes of forbidden literature -- 5. Methods of examining books by the Congregation of the Holy Office -- 6. Index of forbidden books -- 7. Penalties for violations of book regulations -- 8. Permission to read forbidden books -- 9. Promotion of reading.
LCCN
52009314
OCLC
  • ocm01025671
  • 1025671
  • SCSB-308641
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library