The great adventures of Dumas and the soulful works of Hugo are delightful stories that seem, at first glance beyond reproach. But I have read the others, and while I can’t say I was particularly surprised to see Flaubert and Voltaire on this list, Hugo and Dumas are another story. Now, I haven’t read number four or number nine so I won’t speak to those. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Laurence Sterne The Political History of the Devil, Daniel Defoeĩ. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor HugoĨ. Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded, Samuel RichardsonĦ. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre DumasĤ. Perhaps most surprising is the number of novels flagged by Church censors, including some seemingly benign literary classics. More surprising is that many philosophical tracts penned by luminaries such as Locke, Hobbes, Kant, Descartes, Montesquieu, and Mill also made the list. Unsurprisingly, “heretical” scientific works written by Kepler, Galileo, and Copernicus all made the list. The list ostensibly was created to help steer believers away from heretical works, which in practice meant banning popular or influential works incongruous with Church doctrine. First published in 1559 during the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition, the Index was updated annually until 1966, when it was abolished by Pope Paul VI. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (modern English translation: List of Prohibited Books) was the official list of banned books created by censors of the Roman Catholic Church.
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