HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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there was self-expression in books therefore people began to praise institutions such as the Catholic Church. Censorship was viewed as a way to stop good influences on people.
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there was no expression in books therefore people began to criticize institutions such as the Catholic Church. Censorship was viewed as a way ban all books.
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there was self-expression in books therefore people began to criticize institutions such as the Catholic Church. Censorship was viewed as a way to stop bad influences on people.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") was a 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 read them.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1199, Pope Innocent III, writing in a letter to the bishop of Metz, banned the reading the Bible in private meetings (which he labeled as occultis conventiculis, or “hidden assemblies").
Detailed explanation-3: -The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of books banned for lay Roman Catholic readership. Officially-though the Church was never fully explicit in its means of prosecution of such rules-any individual who dared read any books included on this list risked excommunication and, thus, spiritual damnation.