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All works were placed on the list of forbidden books and kept in libraries only for restricted, authorized use. [215] Looking Backward: Edward Bellamy: 1888 Novel Prohibited by the Tsarist Russian censors. [216] The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903) Unknown 1903 A forgery, portraying a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: Index of Forbidden Books) was a changing list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia); Catholics were forbidden to print or read them, subject to the local bishop. [1]
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The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies. [19] 1960 The Lotus and the Robot: Arthur Koestler: This book contains the author's experiences in India and Japan. The book was highly critical of the cultures of both nations. [20] The book was banned for its negative portrayal of Gandhi. [21] 1962
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France was widely reviewed in the academic press.. Mark Curran, writing in The Historical Journal, praised Darnton, saying "Robert Darnton's contributions to the fields of pre-revolutionary French history, book history, sociology, the history of ideas and, more recently, digital humanities have been profound and inspirational."
This order "was duly ratified by a legal opinion ". [73] Another source (Feisal Khan) quotes several sources indicating the Ottoman Empire forbid as riba only interest rates above a certain level (about 10–20%). [74] According to Minna Rozen, the business of money lending was completely in the hands of Jewish Sarrafs in the Ottoman Empire. [75]
Wexler's epic fantasy series, The Shadow Campaigns, is set in a world resembling Europe and North Africa during the Napoleonic era.It mainly follows three soldiers of the kingdom of Vordan – Count Janus bet Vhalnich, a character patterned after Napoleon, [2] Marcus d'Ivoire, a seasoned infantry commander posted to a backward colony, and Winter Ihernglass, a young woman who disguised herself ...