The Index Of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries O... May 2026

Charles Darwin was never on the Index, while some popular authors were ignored because they were deemed "too boring" to be dangerous.

by Robin Vose (2022) is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum . The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries o...

Reviewers note that Vose portrays the Index not as a efficient tool of terror, but as a "chaotic, all-too human" set of institutions. Charles Darwin was never on the Index, while

The work is divided into two distinct parts that frame censorship as both a historical and thematic struggle: but as a "chaotic