The book expands the narrative beyond Rome, showing how local Inquisitions (Spanish, Portuguese) and universities (Paris, Louvain) ran their own censorship campaigns.
The work is divided into two distinct parts that frame censorship as both a historical and thematic struggle: 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. The book expands the narrative beyond Rome, showing
Traces censorship back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, illustrating that the Church's later efforts built upon existing societal impulses to control knowledge. showing how local Inquisitions (Spanish